[Bug 28990] LibUUID dependency problematic for OSX and Windows

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28990

--- Comment #1 from Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk> 2010-07-12 04:53:46 PDT ---
If we're generating things that appear to be UUIDs, we should make a reasonable
effort to make them universally unique, so I don't think the GLib PRNG is a
suitable fallback mechanism.

Windows has API to create UUIDs
(<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa379205>, example usage
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/10554>), and I find it hard to believe that there isn't a
similarly good solution on Mac OS X, *BSD, etc. I'd accept patches to make
Gabble able to use a more portable UUID library on non-Linux Unixes.

I've wondered whether to put this functionality in telepathy-glib (perhaps it
should even be in GLib), if we're going to start requiring CMs with Message to
stamp unique identifiers on individual IMs.

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