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To fix memory leaks in Levels in LOGCXX-485, we decided to change the API in back incompatible way and don't use LevelPtr anymore at all. If such a change is already made, this might be the best time to additionally remove ObjectPtr in favour of a more standard shared_ptr as well. In the end, the leak with Levels shouldn't have happened, because LevelPtr is a ObjectPtr and should take care of deleting allocated memory itself properly. Additionally, shared_ptrs in various implementations are really common these days, so there shouldn't be a need for a custom implementation anymore.
So which shared_ptr to use? I suggest focussing on std with C++11 and boost as a fallback for all users with older compilers and environments. We should create some kind of macro to make switching between both easy using some define and std might be a reasonable choice as default without any switch. This way modern C++ environments don't introduce additional requirements. My own compiler C++Builder XE10 from embarcadero e.g. is providing Boost 1.39 for its legacy compiler, which not yet supports C++11 very well. The newer CLANG based ones on the other hand don't fully support some older legacy projects and libs, so supporting a Boost fallback should be a reasonable choice to not need to deal with a custom implementation. Boost itself should be so widespread used these days and 1.39 providing shared_ptr is so old, that it is most likely that all users of log4cxx can support it.
The following was suggested on the mailing list as an example to switch between both:
But I suggest not relying on autoconf anymore. We had quite some build tool discussions in the past, CMAKE has often been named as an alternative. It should be the easiest to simply define some macro which decides about the namespace to use, so the user can switch between boost and std or even std::tr1 and such manually by simply defining the macro. If it's undefined at compile time, std might be used as a fallback.
This has been discussed in the following thread:
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LOGCXX-485 Levels leak memory
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