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2010/12/10 Pierre-Yves Gérardy <pygy79@gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 00:43, Zed Shaw <zed.shaw@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> * Ditch libuuid and just rolled my own psuedo uuid for sessions (which
>> probably ain't secure but oh well).
>
> I'm not in web dev at the moment, but I'm still keeping an eye on this...
> Why did you remove libuuid? Because of OS X? If it is the case, this could
> be helpful:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/programming@jsoftware.com/msg05886.html
> Cheers,
> ++ Pierre-Yves

Yep, I removed it, but it wasn't hard to replicate something similar
without the extra dependency.  Next release will use /dev/urandom and
64 bits of entropy so it should be safer.

Zed