UUID-Tiny Version 1.03

This is a Pure Perl module for the creation of UUIDs:

• version 1 time based (with random multicast MAC address)
• version 3 MD5 based
• version 4 random number based
• version 5 SHA-1 based

The module uses a functional interface and creates binary (network byte order) or string representations. Version 3 and 5 UUIDs can be created from file content instead of "names" (strings).

Be aware that, because of being a Pure Perl implementation, there are performance limits and the randomness of multicast MAC addresses and the version 4 numbers are not perfect. If you can afford module compilation and installation, you should look at Data::UUID instead!

INSTALLATION

To install this module, run the following commands:

        perl Makefile.PL
        make
        make test
        make install

DEPENDENCIES

Should run from Perl 5.8 up and uses this modules (mostly Perl 5.8 core):

Carp
Digest::MD5
Digest::SHA1 (or Digest::SHA or Digest::SHA::PurePerl) MIME::Base64
Time::HiRes
POSIX

SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION

After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc UUID::Tiny

You can also look for information at:

RT, CPAN's request tracker

http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=UUID-Tiny

AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation

http://annocpan.org/dist/UUID-Tiny

CPAN Ratings

http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/UUID-Tiny

Search CPAN

http://search.cpan.org/dist/UUID-Tiny/

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2009, 2010 Christian Augustin

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.