Re: [PATCH] Replacement for OSSP-UUID for Linux and BSD

Tom Lane wrote:
> "David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com> writes:
> > On May 26, 2014, at 9:30 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >>> How about --with-unix-uuid? Or --with-ext2-uuid?
> 
> >> Meh.  "Unix" certainly subsumes BSD, so that doesn't seem like a very
> >> useful distinction.  I guess we could use "ext2" but that would just
> >> confuse most people.
> 
> > --with-uuid?
> 
> I thought about that but figured we'd regret it ...

Why not --with-uuid-implementation=<impl>, and have <impl> be one of
e2utils, bsd, ossp, with the latter being default?  We could also have
offer the value "list" or "help" which would list the available options.
That way, if we come up with a new implementation in the future, this is
easily extensible.

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