Just a status update on the singleton/multiton library, so that people know I am still alive ;). After much chaos trying to write a multiton longevity lifetime policy, I had the sudden realization that both singletons and multitons should be able to play nicely together. Thus, I am writing a single(ton) class to manage a priority queue of shared_ptrs to nodes. The longevity policies will derive privately from their respective dependency policies, and create their own derived node types which hold dependencies. As the inheritance is private, these will be the only dependencies in existence. Both multitons and singletons will be destroyed as the dependency-holding nodes are popped in the destructor of the instance registry, which itself will have a static dependency to ensure existence for the entire lifetime of the program. Thoughts and suggestions, as always, are welcome. -Jason