[Lynx-dev] code-metrics

[Thomas Dickey]

This is a short summary of code metrics showing how lynx has grown from
release to release.  It also shows how the original codebase has
been almost completely replaced by contributors after the release of
lynx 2.4.2 in 1996.  The numbers shown are for lines of text, to keep
the presentation simple.

Release         Current                 Original
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                Text    C-code          Text    C-code  % Text  % Code
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2.4.2            77210   63463          77210   63463   100     100
2.6             112970   92869          58859   49665    52      53
2.7.1           125723  103489          54121   45111    43      43
2.7.2           162228  123130          48979   40655    30      33
2.8.1           191738  133778          37286   33582    19      25
2.8.2           227160  147485          32227   29004    14      19
2.8.3           248646  166833          29035   26346    11      15
2.8.4           310436  168108          28364   25751     9      15
2.8.5           362834  167358          26900   24355     7      14
2.8.6           395237  169885          23380   20801     5      12

Beginning with 2.8.6, the fraction of remaining original codebase is an
estimate, since all C source code is automatically indented using the
indent.sh script.  That added 7216 lines of change since it was not possible
to completely match the hand-edited indention scheme.

Current lynx releases contain a large amount of text other than C code.
That includes plain text, html, message libraries, custom and generated
scripts.

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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