Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.42.desthuilli...@websiteburo.invalid> writes: > Take some not-that-trivial projects like Zope/Plone. There are quite a > few lines of code involved, and quite a lot of programmers worked on it.
Zope is about 375 KLOC[1], which I agree is not trivial, but by today's standards, it's not all that large. Zope also has 275 open bugs, 6 of which are critical.[2] The Space Shuttle avionics (written in the 1980's!) are 2 MLOC in which only 3 errors have been found post-release.[3] I think "large software system" today means 100's of MLOC. FWIW, Zope has 20x as much code as Django--is that a good thing!? [1] http://www.peterbe.com/plog/size-Zope3,Django,TurboGears [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope3 [3] http://haacked.com/archive/2006/10/20/The_Misuse_of_the_Space_Shuttle_Analogy.aspx#11147 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
