Re: UUID Library for Gnome apps

[אנטולי קרס נר <tombackton gmail com>]

Hi,
I don't use Ubuntu and I don't know which library it actually is.
Anyway, clearly some people use one while some use the other. What I'm
looking for is system-wide recommendation or advice.

On Fedora, there's libuuid which comes with the Linux kernel IIRC and my
whole desktop depends on it. And there's uuid and uuid++ provided by
OSSP, which weren't installed at all, which means no package uses them.

Anatoly


On ה', 2013-05-30 at 21:25 +0200, Vivien Malerba wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
> I use the libuuid library (uuid-dev and uuid-runtime packages under
> Ubuntu).
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Vivien
>
>
>
> On 30 May 2013 07:37, אנטולי קרסנר <tombackton gmail com> wrote:
>         Hello list,
>         
>         I'm writing a desktop app using Gnome technologies and I want
>         to use
>         UUIDs as means of generating URIs for resources.
>         
>         I found two UUID libraries: One is part of e2fsprogs, and the
>         other one
>         is provided by OSSP and has a C++ binding (perfect for me
>         because I
>         write in C++).
>         
>         I don't mind using a C library, but I'm not sure which UUID
>         library is
>         better for my app. The first one I mentioned, my whole system
>         depends on
>         it. And it's part of the Linux kernel. So I'm wondering, does
>         using it
>         create a dependency on Linux?
>         
>         And what is the recommended UUID to use? I see two options and
>         I don't
>         know how to choose. Choosing randomly would just create
>         inconsistency,
>         if each module "just chooses" one of them.
>         
>         regards,
>         Anatoly
>         
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