ossp-pkg/uuid/perl/uuid.pod 1.8 -> 1.9
--- uuid.pod 2005/08/31 08:55:18 1.8
+++ uuid.pod 2005/09/02 14:00:05 1.9
@@ -35,16 +35,18 @@
=head1 DESCRIPTION
-B<OSSP::uuid> is the Perl binding to the B<OSSP uuid> API.
-
-B<OSSP uuid> is an ISO-C and Perl application programming interface
-(API) and corresponding command line interface (CLI) for the generation
-of DCE 1.1 and ISO/IEC 11578:1996 compliant I<Universally Unique
+B<OSSP uuid> is a ISO-C:1999 application programming interface (API)
+and corresponding command line interface (CLI) for the generation of
+DCE 1.1, ISO/IEC 11578:1996 and RFC 4122 compliant I<Universally Unique
Identifier> (UUID). It supports DCE 1.1 variant UUIDs of version 1 (time
and node based), version 3 (name based, MD5), version 4 (random number
-based) and version 5 (name based, SHA-1).
+based) and version 5 (name based, SHA-1). Additional API bindings are
+provided for the languages ISO-C++:1998, Perl:5 and PHP:4/5. Optional
+backward compatibility exists for the ISO-C DCE-1.1 and Perl Data::UUID
+APIs.
-B<OSSP::uuid> provides three Perl APIs:
+B<OSSP::uuid> is the Perl binding to the B<OSSP uuid> API.
+Three variants are provided:
=head2 TIE-STYLE API
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