Re: Technical Excellence?

From: Vinnie Falco (vinnie.falco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-03-31 19:17:00

On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 11:04 AM Ivan Matek via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> My guess would be that >80% of users of boost SmartPtr are just annoyed
> that 13 y after C++11 they have mix of Boost and std in their codebase.
> Because in real codebases often people do not bother to upgrade old code,
> they just start using new stuff so you end up with mix of boost and std.
>

That is probably true, but removing Boost.SmartPtr does nothing to solve
it. If the maintainers of a code base are bothered by a mixture of smart
pointer types, they must refactor the code base in question to use only one
type instead. boost::shared_ptr and std::shared_ptr are almost identical,
so an automated search and replace would likely suffice.

Thanks