----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert J. Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 15:24 Subject: Re: Need Ammo in Make vs. Ant argument...
> On Sat, 9 Jun 2001 15:48:27 +1000 Tim Vernum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From: Lance Hankins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Any ammunition will be greatly appreciated :) > > > > I can get you some research (that I think was from Sun) that showed > > that for a large system, 10% of the code was in the build process. > > I would also be interested in reading this if it is available. Drop > me a line offlist if you would like. > > > But any metric of a large in house development system should give > > similar results. > > This is what we are seeing here as well. I havent done a line by line count, but here we have 50KB of build files and 457KB of java source. So that 10% metric still holds in ant -but note that the build files cover web service installation and behind firewall deployment to multiple staging sites. Oh, and did I mention the CD burn for the beyond firewall deployment? Actually this raises an interesting task idea: what do we have in terms of source code metric tasks -like lines of code, #of statements, #of branches, class and method counts, which could be auto extracted during a build process. If some analysis was always done as part of the build process, it'd be an easy way to generate interesting data. -steve
