On 13/10/2016 11:58, Edward Diener wrote:
I would like to ask a design question for any Boost developers or anyone on this mailing list who might care to answer.
You are designing or working on a library, perhaps for Boost, perhaps for fun, and part of the design of the library has some public functionality taking a shared pointer as input. You:
1) Use boost::shared_ptr 2) Use std::shared_ptr 3) Use both boost::shared_ptr and std::shared_ptr with the same functionality 4) Use neither, you roll your own shared pointer-like functionality 5) You don't lke shared pointers and use raw pointers instead
I really am curious about this. I haven't put any limitation on your library or made any presumption on who your library is for, on purpose.
If I'm writing a small library/program that doesn't need Boost for something else, then I'll use std::shared_ptr. Otherwise, I'll use boost::shared_ptr, except where required to use std::shared_ptr by existing interfaces. (Why? Because boost::shared_ptr is better. It has shared_from_raw and a few other such convenience features.)