From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Ben Key <bkey76@gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:51:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aafc7hjd.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikAgU9YcOuoXrrsHmE2pJ70ke54zQ@mail.gmail.com> (Ben Key's message of "Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:16:17 -0500")
Ben Key <bkey76@gmail.com> writes:
> First, we should NEVER expect our users to have to install an
> enormous, developer only, package like the Microsoft SDK just to use
> Emacs.
>
> Second, as I documented in an earlier message, the Microsoft SDK
> uuidgen tool is NOT a drop in replacement for the GNU/Linux uuidgen
> tool.
Fair enough. So we come back to the question of how important uuid
generation is. Suppose someone writes a Lisp implementation. Whether
or not it's acceptable for Emacs core depends on whether there are real
uses (otherwise we could always add it to elpa.gnu.org, of course).
Leo mentioned calendar, bbdb, and org, three parts of Emacs that I don't
use heavily. Could anyone elaborate? Would a uuid function prove
immediately useful for these applications, or is it a case of "it might
or might not be useful"?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-26 22:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-26 21:16 Should Emacs provide a uuid function? Ben Key
2011-04-26 22:51 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2011-04-27 3:43 ` Leo
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2011-04-26 21:06 Ben Key
2011-04-15 4:59 Leo
2011-04-24 20:43 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-25 3:37 ` Leo
2011-04-25 4:37 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-04-25 7:21 ` Ken Raeburn
2011-04-25 8:45 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-04-25 9:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-25 10:33 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-04-25 12:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-28 15:11 ` Ken Raeburn
2011-04-29 3:47 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-04-30 8:00 ` Ken Raeburn
2011-04-30 18:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-04-30 22:22 ` Ken Raeburn
2011-05-01 9:06 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-04-30 13:32 ` Richard Stallman
2011-04-30 13:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-25 19:52 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-28 15:11 ` Ken Raeburn
2011-05-09 6:29 ` Leo
2011-05-09 7:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-09 10:51 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-09 11:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-09 11:36 ` Leo
2011-05-09 14:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-09 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-09 15:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-09 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-09 17:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-09 19:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-09 15:09 ` Chong Yidong
2011-05-09 15:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-09 15:27 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-09 15:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-09 15:42 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-09 15:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-05-09 15:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-09 15:59 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-05-09 17:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-09 17:45 ` joakim
2011-05-09 17:50 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-05-10 14:03 ` Jason Rumney
2011-05-30 17:22 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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