./devel/ossp-uuid, C-API and command line tool for generating UUIDs

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Branch: pkgsrc-2008Q2, Version: 1.6.0, Package name: ossp-uuid-1.6.0, Maintainer: heinz

UUIDs are 128 bit numbers which are intended to have a high likelihood
of uniqueness over space and time and are computationally difficult
to guess. They are globally unique identifiers which can be locally
generated without contacting a global registration authority. UUIDs
are intended as unique identifiers for both mass tagging objects
with an extremely short lifetime and to reliably identifying very
persistent objects across a network.

OSSP uuid is a ISO-C:1999 application programming interface (API)
and corresponding command line interface (CLI) for the generation
of DCE 1.1, ISO/IEC 11578:1996 and RFC 4122 compliant Universally
Unique Identifier (UUID). It supports DCE 1.1 variant UUIDs of version
1 (time and node based), version 3 (name based, MD5), version 4
(random number based) and version 5 (name based, SHA-1). Additional
API bindings are provided for the languages ISO-C++:1998, Perl:5 and
PHP:4/5. Optional backward compatibility exists for the ISO-C DCE-1.1
and Perl Data::UUID APIs.

Master sites:

SHA1: 081b91cf6b57ec8f3df1601d1b6fec092eb597d3
RMD160: 6755ee46fbcf254df7ae7742fea16142b3ad70d4
Filesize: 397.262 KB

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