UUID-Tiny Version 1.00

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

None. (Should run from Perl 5.6 up and uses only standard modules.)


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 Christian Augustin

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.