RFC: std.uuid

[Johannes Pfau]

Vladimir Panteleev wrote:

> On Thursday, 22 December 2011 at 23:12:07 UTC, Johannes Pfau
> wrote:
>> There's one special thing about this module: It uses the ragel
>> (http://www.complang.org/ragel/) state machine compiler. I hope
>> this is not a problem for phobos, ragel doesn't introduce any
>> runtime dependencies and has no effect on licensing. There's
>> also no need to integrate ragel in the build process. We can
>> publish a pregenerated .d file, which should be updated
>> manually whenever changes to uuid.rl are made.
> 
> Would it be hard to reimplement the ragel part using string
> mixins? From a quick glance at it, it doesn't seem too difficult.

I uploaded a new version at 
https://github.com/jpf91/phobos/blob/std.uuid/std/uuid.d which gets rid of 
the ragel dependency.