Background

ACS Smart Pointers for components are based on loki library and the problem is that this is an old library providing support for smart pointers not officially offered by C++ or Boost years ago. The problem is that the support for this library was discontinued and it is becoming a legacy software in ACS. These days both Boost and the standard C++ library are providing different implementations of smart pointers, hence it would make sense to migrate the existing smart pointers to one of the implementations offered by them.