[Boost-announce] [Review] UUID library (mini-)review starts today, November 23rd

Subject: [Boost-announce] [Review] UUID library (mini-)review starts today, November 23rd
From: Hartmut Kaiser (hartmut.kaiser_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-23 19:13:55

Hi all,

The mini-review of Andy Tompkins UUID library starts today, November 23rd
2008, and will end on November 30th. 
I really hope to see your vote and your participation in the discussions on
the Boost mailing lists!

The library can be downloaded from the vault here (it's the file
uuid_v13.zip in the topmost directory): http://tinyurl.com/6xx28b

The initial review of the UUID library ended with a provisional acceptance
(read here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.user/27774/). 

This mini review is meant to allow for a final decision after looking at the
changed parts of the library. Here is a list of things fixed and changed:

- fixed the licensing issues revealed by the initial review
- fixed the security vulnerability revealed by the initial review
- renamed to uuid, moved all classes, functions, etc. to namespace
boost::uuids
- implemented sha1 hash function (thus no license problem)
- new class basic_uuid_generator to create random-based uuids.  The random
number generator is no longer hard coded.  It can use any random number
generator, default is boost::mt19937
- implemented a good seed function for random number generators
- all functions are now reentrant, all classes are as thread safe as an int
and the library is no longer dependent on Boost.Thread

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Please always state in your review, whether you think the library should be
accepted as a Boost library!

Additionally please consider giving feedback on the following general
topics:

- What is your evaluation of the design?
- What is your evaluation of the implementation?
- What is your evaluation of the documentation?
- What is your evaluation of the potential usefulness of the library?
- Did you try to use the library?  With what compiler?  Did you have any
problems?
- How much effort did you put into your evaluation? A glance? A quick
reading? In-depth study?
- Are you knowledgeable about the problem domain?

Regards Hartmut
Review Manager