[Opensim-dev] Thoughts on UUID

[Ryan McDougall]

Nit-pick: how about OpenSim.UUID or OpenSim.UniqueID; in a namespace?

Its a pet peeve of mine when people prefix things that should be
namespaced. ;)

Cheers,

On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 14:14 -0400, Sean Dague wrote:
> One of the things that I ran into today is how many places LLUUID ends
> up in our code base from libsecondlife.  While not always a problem it
> does lead to some oddness.
> 
>  * libsecondlife is a required link for lots of classes that just need a
>    UUID
>  * LLUUID is not serializable, which causes us some pain
>  * LLUUID has changed a couple of times in the past, causing us grief
> 
> It seems like it would be a good idea to replace LLUUID as much as
> possible with our own OSUUID (I put a sample in
> OpenSim/Framework/OSUUID.cs).  It would look very similar to LLUUID
> (which is basically just a wrapper on System.Guid), but be
> [Serializable].  It would also mean that we could drop a lot of
> libsecondlife references.  I think that would be required for Stefan's
> OpenSim.Model idea.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> This will be a lot of work if we decide to do it, and a couple of days
> of brutal instability to do a swap out like this, as we can't get rid of
> LLUUID entirely (we need it when we get to packet generation I think).
> 
> Discussion on this one would be appreciated.  Definitely wouldn't want
> to make any changes like this without full agreement from everyone.
> 
>    -Sean
> 
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