[openbeos] Re: little Newsletter-Stats, old OBOS-side and anquestion about

[Michael Phipps <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2004-02-09 at 09:39:17 [-0500], theUser BL wrote:
> What I meant was this graphic:
> http://gravity24hr.com/statcvs/loc.html
> 
> At the end of 2003 there comes comes _a lot_ of code in the CVS. But after
> that, there is only a vew new code.

Yes, I see what you are looking at - but did you go through the CVS logs and 
find what those commits were? A few of the big ones:
1) GIFTranslator - code generously donated by Daniel Switkin
2) libiconv - nearly 100,000 lines of GNU oode.
3) Codecs - much of which is pre-written code from other sources.

Those are jumps that are good and fine but can't be considered a trend. At 
that rate, by August, we would have 10 million lines of code. :-) Also, take 
into account that there is a lot of the "end time" bug fixing. Look at BFS. 
Axel isn't checking in hundreds of lines of code a week. Why? He is spending 
hours and hours (right, Axel? :-D ) debugging and finding the last nasties in 
BFS. 5 lines of checkin might represent 20 hours of looking. Does that mean 
that we are "slowing down" or that OBOS is "dead"? Of course not. :-) It is 
just how software goes. In fact, if I were an outside observer who didn't 
know what I know, I might well draw the conclusion that with > 2 million 
lines of code and the pace of checkins "slowing" that we were coming to the 
end of our coding cycle for R1. 

> Yes, but the interesting thing is, that is do exactly the same like "mimeset
> -f program"
> 
<snip some evidence>
> 
> And mimeset do a lot with the program. On some programs the size becomes a
> little bit bigger and so.

I haven't looked at the Tracker code, but I would guess that they both use 
the same Roster calls to lookup a files type and then write it out. :-)

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