Glen Fernandes wrote:
peterkochlarsen wrote:
Also an unmaintained library should be marked as such as should libraries that are deprecated, replaced by standard C++ features (shared_ptr comes to mind)
shared_ptr (or Boost.SmartPointers in general) is not unmaintained, and is not deprecated.
It actually has been evolving past the C++11 std::shared_ptr. For example, boost::shared_ptr supported array forms in 1.53 and this was eventually added to C++ in C++17.
And, since we managed to not get the array form of make_shared into C++17, boost::make_shared will remain relevant a few more years. This reminds me of the saying "looking for the lost keys under the street light." We have a problem, what can we do? I know, let's deprecate and remove boost::shared_ptr!