18 May
2005
18 May
'05
8:17 p.m.
Chris Cannam wrote:
There have been solutions to this problem for years:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_Unique_Identifier
...if I'm not misunderstanding the issue.
Toby
So why
wasn't the unique ID the thing to use?
Because it's impossible to find any way to guarantee it's actually
unique, for example in the case of a wrapper plugin that generates
plugins on the fly.