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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] UUID
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 8:40 PM, Remi Collet <remi@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Perhaps, no need to reinvent the wheel...
>
> There is already 2 uuid extensions
>
> - the one provided in the libuuid sources
> - the pecl one : https://pecl.php.net/package/uuid
>
> No need to create more confusion.
>
> If something missing, just add it in the existing pecl ext.
>
> If needed, open a RFC to merge the extension in php.

This is why I referred to this extension and lib. However they are
only based on libuuid. We still need to support windows and I would
prefer to use libc's uuid for BSD. I think pecl's uuid could be good
start to make it more portable across system.

The API is already clear (generation and comparison, not sure we need
much more). I am not sure either about the various platforms and what
they support in term of UUID versions. We have to clarify this point
before anything can be merged.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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