[GRASS-dev] Re: wxPython GUI code base (was Re: a better console and better diff)

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Michael wrote:
>> I used wc -l to count lines and files
>> in ./grass65_dev/gui/wxpython (source from develbranch_6)
>> and came up with a considerably larger number.
> ...
>> lines of written code:     91,818
> ...
>> I wonder why SLOCCount undercounts by so much?
>
> AFAIU it is "SLOC" not LOC. my limited understanding is that it removes
> whitespace, comments, and continuations and just reports hard lines of
> code. but that does not mean lines of logic.  FWTW, it's just a metric,
> it doesn't really mean much. Some commercial programmers get paid per
> line of code or have a quota of number of lines per day, with predictably
> verbose results. At the other end of the spectrum is the obfuscated C contest which tries to do as much as possible in a single line of code.
>
> It's a bogus as trying to quantitatively measure teaching performance or
> research impact with some formula. It gives a rough idea, but only a
> very rough one...
>
>
>> I guess that the SLOCCount 'estimated cost to develop'
>> ought to be a lot higher too.
>
> depends on how much you value your time ;)
> see the sloccount man page and website for how to adjust that parameter,
> and not that was just for the gui/wxpython/ dir. see the main wiki page
> for oholo's project development metrics. (which in turn ignores anything
> not copied from grass5 and pre-svn..)
>
>
>
> anyway, you can comfortably tell folks that the new GUI looks like a
> million bucks.
>

Well stated! I am more and more impressed with the quality of the new
GUI-- despite my grumbling on the d.* commands. Great work everyone!

Dylan