Re: unique id (uid, uuid, guid etc) class needed

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Hello Andrew,


Andrew wrote:
> Hello,
> I need a uuid class. After a bit of googling I see that at some point
> there was some work in boost for this but it looks like it will be a
> while before it is generally available. It is not in 1.41.1. Does
> anyone know if there is one available elsewhere? It must be portable
> of course. The project I am currently working on uses the UUID stuff
> from Microsoft (for RPC). I want to avoid such lock-in.

You can have a look at Poco, which does have a portable UUID class. I
don't know if it suits you, but you can have a look:

http://pocoproject.org

Just look under Documentation in the Foundation classes.


lg,
Michael



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