[Gambas-devel] Component for universally unique identifier (UUID)

[Charlie Reinl]

Am Sonntag, den 28.01.2007, 23:05 +0100 schrieb Benoit Minisini:
> On Wednesday 24 January 2007 20:11, Charlie Reinl wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 24.01.2007, 17:49 +0100 schrieb Benoit Minisini:
> > > On Monday 22 January 2007 00:15, Charlie Reinl wrote:
> > > > Salut Benoît,
> > > >
> > > > I made a gambas Component who return an  universally unique identifier
> > > > (UUID) In the attachment you find the sources and also the help for
> > > > Wiki.
> > > >
> > > > The Component was made with gambas2-1.9.20
> > > > They still work well on gambas2-1.9.47
> > > >
> > > > There is no check for needed lib's.
> > > >
> > > > I would like to see them checked in into the svn tree.
> > > >
> > > > Amicalment
> > > > Charlie
> > >
> > > Why do you want to create a component that just do:
> > >
> > > SHELL "uuidgen" TO uuid ?
> >
> > Salut,
> >
> > 1. I can't write it in C.
> > 2. I need it often and in nearly all projects.
> > 3. And  with a component I can use it in every project.
> >
> > But you can tell me, how and where I can make local components, so there
> > is no need to get it into the main-tree !
> >
> > Till now I always have to look, and add it in ../comp/src/order when I
> > update gambas2.
> >
> > Amicalment
> > Charlie
> >
> 
> The problem is that making a component just for doing one line of code is too 
> heavy!
> 
> I plan to make a 'gb.desktop' component in the future based on the Portland 
> project. This component will include many desktop-agnostic functions 
> (creating an icon, running a browser, a e-mail client...). 
> 
> Maybe your function could be put in this component?
> 
Salut Benoit,

that should be ok.

But is there a way to build components which are token up to the next
version ?

Amicalment
Charlie