[wp-hackers] Time to change GUID to UUID?

[Dion Hulse (dd32)]

The Guid is primarily used for the feeds.
The Hostname is included to give it a prefix which differs from most other
installations (Localhost being the obvious case where it's not a unique
inclusion)

On 14 May 2011 13:08, Lonny K <lonnyk at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just wanted to ask a few questions about this:
>
> 1) What is the GUID used for inside of WP?
> 2) Why is the hostname stored here? It seems very redundant to me.
>
> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Lynne Pope <lynne.pope at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:16 AM, 24/7 <24-7 at gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> > >  So far i can't see a reason
> > > to not open a trac ticket and change this.
> > >
> >
> > It's been around for 3 years:
> > http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6492
> > <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6492>
> >
> > Since that ticket is now getting new comments its probably time to take
> > this
> > discussion there.
> >
> > Lynne
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