Improving internal report identifiers

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Andrew Sackville-West <andrew at swclan.homelinux.org>:

>> I'm pretty sure Hampton wrote code to create an ID on the fly for custom
>> check formats. I would imagine it could be reused pretty easily.
>
> the engine generates (from somewhere -- handwave) GUID's all the time,
> there must be a way to just grab one. The actual content of the
> internal ID of a report is completely meaningless, so long as it's
> unique, so I would think a GUID would be perfect.

guid_new() from C.  And guid_new_return (or guid-new-return) from Scheme.

> A

-derek

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