Zitat von John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us>:
Can the qof guid library be replaced by libuuid on linux?
Those seem good proposals to me. The only (smallish) problem I see
is that the
guids generated by libuuid and UuidCreate have a slightly different format
than what we use now. So we'd still have to wrap these libraries to output
guids in the format we are using so far. But that seems to be a small issue.
That's the string value. We should just get the uint-128 and shove
it into the Qof structure and let Qof handle formatting it.
For completeness, the Quartz function is CFUUIDCreate(); it returns
an opaque CFUUID object, and you retrieve the value as a struct of
16 uint8s with CFUUIDGetBytes().
Absolutely. I think at the time when gnucash adopted the GUID approach
either libuuid wasn't around yet, or nobody thought of it at the time.
I completely agree we should change the qof/guid.c implementation from
our hand-written random number generator to libguuid on Linux and the
two other methods on Windows and Mac, respectively.
Regards,
Christian
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