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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