Re: [boost] Review Request: Singularity

Subject: Re: [boost] Review Request: Singularity
From: Alexey Tkachenko (iskaspb_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-08-24 09:29:06

On 24-Aug-2011, at 9:18 PM, Mathias Gaunard wrote:

> On 24/08/2011 04:28, Ben Robinson wrote:
>> Mathias,
>> 
>> I think this discussion is getting a little off track.  There is a lot
>> of literature on creating a thread-safe Singleton that manages the lifetime
>> of your object according to your needs. However, there is no silver bullet
>> for the pattern.  Different variants make different tradeoffs depending on
>> the user's needs.  The three issues that are inherent to Singleton are:
>> 
>> 1) You have little control over when the Singleton is destroyed.  Should you
>> have multiple Singleton which depend on each-other, very often you need a
>> very specific teardown order.
> 
> It should be the inverse order of the construction order.

Consider dependency between singletons