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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [Discussion] UUID
From: larry@garfieldtech.com (Larry Garfield)

On 05/24/2017 04:31 AM, lists@rhsoft.net wrote:
>
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> Am 24.05.2017 um 11:27 schrieb Dan Ackroyd:
>>> Hey internals!
>>>
>>> I haven't written the RFC yet,
>>
>> Please don't forget to include in the RFC a justification for why this
>> should be part of PHP core, rather than a library
>
> because as developer in reality you can not use and rely on features 
> which needs to install some pecl-library when it is supposed to be 
> used on typical hosting packages

It doesn't have to be a PECL library.  I agree that a project requiring 
a PECL library greatly limits its potential reach, but with Composer 
user-space libraries are totally easy to install. There's a nice and 
popular UUID implementation already:

https://packagist.org/packages/ramsey/uuid

Note: That doesn't mean adding UUID functionality to PHP core/standard 
lib is a bad idea; discussing that is fine.  But the "no one will be 
able to use it otherwise" argument is substantially less compelling than 
it was even 5 years ago.

--Larry Garfield