Project and Assembly GUIDs should be unique

[lilwhitemouse]

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 magic^TM.

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]

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]

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

[n-fisher]

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