Re: [Boost-users] [Serialization] purpose of GUID

"Ingo Nolden" wrote in message news:20070515191535.399222F8109@wowbagger.osl.iu.edu... Hi, I am a bit confused about the purpose of GUID. My understanding was, that it is a user defined id for a class, so that the serialization mechanism knows what types to instanciate on load. I somehow assumed it to be a replacement (or equivalent) of the numbers in the class_id attributes. *** You're correct. But the GUID is used only when the more robust method of an archive local class ID is not possible. Robert Ramey