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

[Michael Barton]

On Dec 22, 2009, at 8:59 AM, Dylan Beaudette wrote:

> 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!

Thanks much Dylan! Hopefully we're making some improvements on the command front too.

Michael