On Sunday, July 3, 2011, Michael Gould
<mgould@intermodalsoftwaresolutions.net> wrote:
> Peter,
>
> I don't believe that the library that the contrib module runs with can run
> on Window 64 bit servers or even Windows 7 64 bit. That is problem as most
> shops are using 64 bit OS and if Window the contrib module is
going to fail.
> Taking the responsibility to handle this internally means that you can
> write your own implementation not based on a libary that can't handle
> Windows 64 bit.
The next release of the installers will, now that we have a 64 Windows
port of ossp-uuid.
Even If that weren't the case, integrating the type wouldn't fix the
problem anyway, unless you're suggesting we implement our own UUID
generator (which isn't nearly as straightforward as it might seem, as
I understand it)..
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