ANN: Boost review of Singleton library

[Pavel Vozenilek]

Boost (http://www.boost.org/) is collection of peer-reviewed C++ libraries.
Review of Singleton, written by Jason Hise, started just now.

The library is available at
http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/vault/index.php?&direction=0&order=&directory=Singleton

The singleton documentation can be browsed online at
http://www.ezequal.com/chaos/docs/html/singleton/


Singleton is feature rich library:

- ensuring single instance of a class
and global access point to this instance

- with policies specifying:

- when the instance gets created
(manually, immediatelly, when first used, ...)

- how is the instance created
(by new, malloc, in static memory, ...)

- when the instance gets destroyed
(never, by priority, after another singleton, ...)



Parametrized singleton called Multiton is provided

City:ointer p1("Chicago");
City:ointer p2("Brussels");

will create two different "singletons" of the same type.


Another feature is ability to register resources
(like shared pointer) who will get destroyed
in controlled order, when the application exits.


If you have opinion on this library, found bug or
something missing, please reply here,
on Boost mail-list or privately.
All feedback is welcomed.

/Pavel

 

[SirMike]

Boost (http://www.boost.org/) is collection of peer-reviewed C++ libraries.
Review of Singleton, written by Jason Hise, started just now.

Cool stuff. I see now that is not necessary to write my own singleton
class. I've written one lately but it was simplified. Now don't need to
improve it