On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Lars Strojny <l...@strojny.net> wrote:
> Hi everyone, > > adding UUID functionality to the core would be very cool. Especially in > times where we create more and more primary keys in the code, not in the > database. > > cu, > Lars > We already have a great (version 4) UUID implementation called mcrypt_create_iv, just minus the fixed sequences and fancy formatting. Apart from moving this to core (not requiring mcrypt/openssl) and maybe adding alphabet support, I don't immediately see why this wouldn't be sufficient. Why do we need fancy UUID formatting or "unique hashes" (whatever that is supposed to be...)? Nikita