[Cosmo-dev] cosmo 0.6.1 EIMML changes

[Randy Letness]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 11:12 AM 3/1/2007 -0800, Jeffrey Harris wrote:
>> Here's how to get different UUIDs for the same modification:
>>
>> 1. Alf and Barbie share a weekly event with no modifications
>> 2. Alf changes the second occurrence's title.  There's nothing that
>> constrains the modification item's UUID, it's randomly generated
>> 3. Simultaneously, Barbie changes the second occurrence's location.
>> Again, the modification she edits has a randomly generated UUID
>>
>> When these get shared, we want the two modifications to merge.  Using
>> their arbitrary UUIDs would make that hard.
>
> Could we use "namespace UUIDs" for this?  A namespace UUID is 
> generated from a base UUID and an arbitrary string.
>
> I know we talked about this before, but I don't think we got to a 
> conclusive yes or no on this idea.
>

Yeah what about making the UUID of a mod be a composition of parentUuid 
and recurrenceId instead of a random UUID?

-Randy