[Sugar-devel] Changing bundle_id and version scheme for Etoys

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 27.07.2010, at 18:57, Bernie Innocenti wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 18:21 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> 
>> This is a nicely decentralized mechanism for choosing identifiers
>> which are guaranteed by construction never to conflict.
> 
> It is indeed a simple and nice scheme, but why is such uniqueness a
> desiderable feature

I thought because the laptops are connected, and this scheme ensures that a local and a remote activity use the same id.

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