Re: [Boost-users] how to download a single library

John Maddock wrote:

If you search the mailing list archives there is a discussion somewhere about why the subset used by shared_ptr is as large as it seems to be (it can be surprising until you realise what's going on).

It really shouldn't be. I've made a conscious effort to reduce shared_ptr (and bind) dependencies as much as possible. shared_ptr should even compile with an empty boost/config.hpp on a conforming compiler. But unfortunately the dependencies still manage to get their way back into the code, somehow.