In my working on the graphics loading facility (src/graphics), I am in a situation where I have GraphicsCacheItem and GraphicsCacheItem_pimpl just for the sake of reference counting the pimpl. I'd like to get rid of this and simply use a reference counting wrapper. I've found boost:shared_ptr in the lyx cvs but it requires exceptions to use it. It seems to me that there is a consensus currently against using exceptions, so the other course is to take the share_ptr, remove the exceptions requiring stuff from it and place it in src/support/ Any objections? -- Baruch Even http://baruch.ev-en.org/