Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] Category Trees

[Ali A. <ALI...@au...>]

> At 1:58 AM -0200 11/25/00, Ali Abdin wrote:
> >If we want truly unique id's then we just use the 'uuid-gen'
> >utility found on most machines.
> 
> Its not on FreeBSD (or even mentioned in /usr/ports/INDEX),
> though I'm sure it could be added.

I thought it was part of the 'e2fsprogs' package (well, thats what its 
part of on my RPM-based system). Oh wait, FreeBSD doesn't use ext2 does 
it?
 
> My opinion, however, is that there is no reason to use ugly, long,
> and easily forgotten keys, in pursuit of mechanical perfection,
> when better ones are available.
> 
> More to the point, it is very handy for folks discussing a given
> package to be able to refer to it clearly and unambiguously.  I
> think my proposal serves here, but that the uuid-gen keys do not.

The uuid-gen 'key' is not supposed to be human readable, or referred to 
by humans, it is an "internal" cataloging purpose thing (like ISBN 
number (you don't memorize those, or refer to a book by them, do you?))

If you want to refer to a doc, you would just use the name, version 
number, author, and possibly locale....

The "unique" id will become more important if/when OMF gets wide adoption 
and you have online servers "talking" to each other. (this "key" would be 
most useful if you have an online central repository that you could talk 
to and query)

Regards,
Ali