[Opensim-dev] Proposal to eliminate the name, description and invType fields from the assets db table

[Sean Dague]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 03:59:39PM -0400, Teravus Ovares wrote:
> I'm not convinced the SHA1 UUID will be extensible enough to allow for
> future plans.   The idea is to not assume anything with a UUID.  Adding
> assumptions increases scalability at the cost of extensibility.

If we make UUID generation a static function that takes a reference to
the content we should be able to implement all 5 RFC UUID types today
(http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc4122.html)

Presumably we'd just do implementations for version 4 (random) and
version 5 (sha1).  UUID type will be detectable as there are reserved
bits (though we'll probably need a path for "damn lindens don't follow
UUID specs, so here are some hardcoded UUIDs that are in the system that
don't follow specs").

    -Sean

-- 
__________________________________________________________________

Sean Dague                                       Mid-Hudson Valley
sean at dague dot net                            Linux Users Group
http://dague.net                                 http://mhvlug.org

There is no silver bullet.  Plus, werewolves make better neighbors
than zombies, and they tend to keep the vampire population down.
__________________________________________________________________
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <http://opensimulator.org/pipermail/opensim-dev/attachments/20080623/62af4c8b/attachment-0001.pgp>