On 12 April 2018 at 13:48, David Demelier via Boost-users <boost-users@lists.boost.org> wrote:

It looks like for some reasons that it still use boost::shared_ptr
instead of std::shared_ptr even though C++11 is 7 years old.

Boost needs to support (a.o.) VC7.1 till eternity (needs to run on WinXP), so this will stay this way forever... "We don't support VC7.1" or "Move on", is NOT an option in 2018 as far as Boost is concerned.

degski