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n-fisher / cookiecutter-rimworld-mod-development

A cookiecutter project that builds the basic Rimworld mod development file structure and build environment.
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Project and Assembly GUIDs should be unique #20

Open lilwhitemouse opened 4 years ago

lilwhitemouse commented 4 years ago

Problem

The GUID for an assembly should, in theory, be a unique way to identify the .dll. However, all cookiecutter projects will have the same GUID. There are, as it happens, a few people who look for specific GUIDs when doing magicTM.

In addition, the project GUIDs should apparently be unique (which would prevent problems when moving projects from solution to solution? Most of us would never notice)

Maybe Do This

There's a command-line option to generate mostly-unique GUIDs in Linux, and there are web options, but I don't know about Windows, and I don't even know if cookiecutter can run commands. Maybe there is a library already in json? I haven't looked any further into this yet.

At a worst-case scenario, the user could be given a website suggestion and prompted to enter GUIDs?

But perhaps more research is required.

n-fisher commented 4 years ago

Interesting points. I worry about adding more complexity to the bootstrapping process as it’s targeted for beginners, but possibly a hash of the other inputs could be a worthwhile solution. I’ll investigate further.

RobRoseKnows commented 4 years ago

Can't you just use the uuid library in python to do this?

n-fisher commented 4 years ago

That's a great suggestion. I'm less familiar with Python so I hadn't thought about that library.