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.