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.