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diff --git a/devel/p5-Data-UUID/pkg-descr b/devel/p5-Data-UUID/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..3fa8a05617f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/devel/p5-Data-UUID/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +This module provides a framework for generating UUIDs (Universally +Unique Identifiers, also known as GUIDs (Globally Unique Identifiers). +A UUID is 128 bits long, and is guaranteed to be different from all +other UUIDs/GUIDs generated until 3400 A.D. Currently many different +technologies rely on UUIDs to provide unique identity for various +software components. + +The algorithm for UUID generation, used by this extension, is described +in the Internet Draft "UUIDs and GUIDs" by Paul J. Leach and Rich Salz. +It provides reasonably efficient and reliable framework for generating +UUIDs and supports fairly high allocation rates - 10 million per second +per machine, and therefore, is suitable for identifying both - extremely +short-lived and very persistent objects on a given system as well as +across the network. + +WWW: http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Data-UUID +WWW: http://www.globecom.net/ietf/draft/draft-leach-uuids-guids-01.txt + +-- Sergey Skvortsov +skv@FreeBSD.org |