Re: [boost] [Review] UUID library (mini-)review starts today, November 23rd

Subject: Re: [boost] [Review] UUID library (mini-)review starts today, November 23rd
From: Andy Tompkins (atompkins_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-27 20:44:39

On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:50:37 -0600, "Hartmut Kaiser"
<hartmut.kaiser_at_[hidden]> said:
> > > > Only because I'm not sure how to implement the time-based
> > > > construction mechanism a portable way.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure what is required but perhaps the newly sandboxed
> > > Chrono library can help here?
> >
> > I will take a look at Chrono, it may help.  The time-based
> > construction ideally requires a MAC address, and I don't know how to
> > get it portably.
>
> Why not leaving the burden of retrieving the MAC address to the
> user, then?

That is a _really_ good idea!  I will spend some time and take a serious
look at implementing a time-based uuid generator.

>
> Regards Hartmut

Thanks,
  Andy Tompkins