Re: [boost] [database] - guid class / Next Release

From: Andy Tompkins (atompkins_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-01 11:53:04

Marc Viala <mviala <at> acticm.com> writes:

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> Hi Andy,
> 
> I'm sorry to be quite < pushy > but are you making some progress on the
> next release of you proposal of guid class? 

I have been almost ready to put a new version in the boost vault for awhile 
now, but I have been having a bit of a problem with bjam (only because I don't 
know it very well).  I have put a new version in the boost vault anyway.  It 
has all the changes that have beed talked about and a platform independent 
create() function (relies on random and date_time from boost), but it is not 
thread safe yet.  The code to make it thread safe is just commented out until I 
can get bjam to link with the threads library (maybe you can give me a hand?).

> 
> The functionalities of your proposal are really present in our current
> project development and I would like to know when you plan to publish
> your next release.
> 
> By the way, do you have a look on my previous email 22/02?

I did look at your previous post.  I should have replied earlier.  I added a 
function called byte_count() (unless you can think of a better name) that will 
allow one to preallocate the output buffer, as follows.

boost::guid id;
std::vector<char> bytes(id.byte_count());
id.output_bytes(bytes.begin());

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Marc Viala 
> 

Thanks again for your interest and feedback, it has already made it a better 
library.

Andy.