Daniel Russel wrote: > I was worried that I was having issues with python prematurely deleting > objects so I added a common base class on the heap allocated objects (to > replace boost::noncopyable). This class enforces the non-copyability as > well as uses a conservative heuristic to keep track of when the object > has been deleted but is still in use and to try to throw an exception > when such has been detected. > > We don't currently have issues with object ownership in IMP, but they > are a pain to track down when they occur as python generally just > unceremoniously bombs. And it gets rid of the funny IMP/boost files. > > A few other bounds checks and null pointer checks have been added also.

Sounds reasonable to me; committed as r651. The patch also included a bunch of changes to the graph and bond decorators, which I did not apply, as it was entirely unrelated. You can put that in a separate patch (with a relevant log message) if you like.

Ben