Hello Lionel, On 05 juillet 07:27, Lionel Barret wrote: > My name is Lionel Barret, I attended Florent Xicluna”s Europython talk > Tuesday and it reminded me of a clone detection tool I used in the past (on > a 100k sloc codebase) > > I talked about it with a few people (Florent Xicluna , Joe Gordon) and they > were interested. Florent told me it was the list for this kind of > discussion. > > This tool named clonedigger (http://clonedigger.sourceforge.net/ ) detects > copy/pasted code or independent writing of the same classes/functions > across a big codebase. In my last job, I used to get a daily html report, a > big overview of the things that have been copy/pasted/rewritten. it was > really useful. > > Sadly, it is unmaintained, the last upload dates from 2011. Besides, it”s > using old packages (like the compiler package) and likely incompatible with > python3 (either for running or for analyzing). > > I really think this kind of tool should be part of any code-quality > toolbox, like pyflakes, pep8, etc. > > ( The tool itself is GPL, so no blocking there. ). > > I just wanted to see if anybody would be interested by an updated version > of the tool and who could help. From the top of my mind, the next steps > would be contacting the original author, evaluate the work to do (obsolete > modules used and python3 incompatibilities) and eventually refactor the > code.
How does it compare to Pylint's similarity checker? Basically it will reports you copy/pasted/rewritten code implying more than a configurable number of lines, after some normalisation. -- Sylvain Thénault, LOGILAB, Paris (01.45.32.03.12) - Toulouse (05.62.17.16.42) Formations Python, Debian, Méth. Agiles: http://www.logilab.fr/formations Développement logiciel sur mesure: http://www.logilab.fr/services CubicWeb, the semantic web framework: http://www.cubicweb.org _______________________________________________ code-quality mailing list code-quality@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/code-quality
