Re: [Gramps-devel] On the generation and handling of _UID

[Benny M. <ben...@gm...>]

2008/2/11, Julio Sánchez <jul...@gm...>:
>
> Hi,
>
> Searching for something else, I found at last something that seems like a
> spec for _UID.  It is referenced in the following message, together with
> announcement of the convenience of having those on future submissions to
> FamilySearch:
>
> http://lists.ldsoss.org/pipermail/ldsoss/2006-May/002298.html
>
> I am not a member of LDS and I am not likely to submit anything there
> either,  but I think generation and proper handling of _UID will be a good
> thing because it makes the merge while import much more reliable and
> hands-free.  They are nonstandard, but they solve a problem that cannot be
> solved any other way in a genealogy software multi-vendor wolrd.  Other
> methods might have been, but this *is*.


We should make this a feature of GRAMPS I think. With web sharing becoming
prevalent, it becomes more and more important.


I have myself found the _UIDs I generate for other applications are not
> acceptable, but now I think I can adapt with some effort leveraging formats
> 3 and 5 from RFC4122.


Can you present example code for GRAMPS? I would suppose you generate those
in GRAMPS and would want them stored in the person record too. It would look
advantageous to move the gramps handle to such a thing, or is that not
possible?

Benny