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From: David Maus <dmaus@ictsoc.de>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] org-id: New org-id-method 'uuid' w/ elisp function that creates random uuid
Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 16:16:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mxw0aq40.wl%dmaus@ictsoc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F52B6408-C059-4872-9903-BE3BDF7E1ACA@gmail.com>


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Carsten Dominik wrote:

>On May 16, 2010, at 11:14 AM, David Maus wrote:

>> Carsten Dominik wrote:
>>>>
>>>> - `org-id-new' uses uuidgen if present and falls back to the elisp
>>>>  function otherwise
>>
>>> I like that.  WOuld you like to modify your patch accordingly?
>>
>> Yes, I'll do that.  Just for the records: using the elisp function as
>> fall back for the external program changes the meaning of the
>> org-id-method uuidgen: It makes Org use UUIDs for the ID property and
>> the external program is the preferred method for doing this.  Hence
>> the symbol should better be 'uuid, not 'uuidgen.  So if there is a
>> list for backward incompatible changes for a further release (maybe
>> 7.x) that are reasonable but not important this should go there.

>Yes.

>But what I would like to to ask is this:

>Make the change and tell people to use `uuid' as the setting.  But if
>a user has set it to uuidgen, be gentle and accept that setting as
>well, treat it like uuid.

Ah, yes, now I've got it.  Patch will be there, soon.

HTH
 -- David
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-07 15:57 [patch] org-id: New org-id-method 'uuid' w/ elisp function that creates random uuid David Maus
2010-05-08  5:03 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-05-08 14:14   ` David Maus
2010-05-15  7:02     ` Carsten Dominik
2010-05-16  9:14       ` David Maus
2010-05-16  9:39         ` Carsten Dominik
2010-05-16 14:16           ` David Maus [this message]

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