[Scrollkeeper-devel] Unique identifiers

[Laszlo K. <las...@su...>]

Hi All,

During the category tree discussion the issue of unique identifiers for
docs was raised. As we want to keep the various discssions as focused as
possible I decided to start this thread.

Here are the main issues raised:

(Rich Morin)
	http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/6429/0/4716298/
        Each package (and each variant and version of same)
        should have a unique identifier, so that we can be
        clear and unambiguous in referring to it.  This is
        really the same issue as the database folks have... 

(Rich Morin)
	http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/6429/0/4716421/
	Use mnemonic identifiers such as package name and principal developer:
	e.g:	perl-lw

(Ali Abdin)
	http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/6429/0/4718805/
	Use uuid-gen.

(Rich Morin)
	http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/6429/0/4719633/
	uuid-gen is not available on every platform (notably FreeBSD).

We talked about this issue previously and we thought about an ISBN like
ID generated by a server available throughout the internet. This server
would generate unique IDs on request by document creators.

Anybody has any other ideas?

Laszlo