Re: Release cycle length

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 02:33:41PM +0100, Tommi Maekitalo wrote:
> ...
> >
> > Does anyone have a comparison of how many lines of code were added in
> > this release compared to previous?
> >
> 7.2.4: 456204 lines of code in 1021 files
> 7.3.4: 480491 lines of code in 1012 files
> 7.4: 554567 lines of code in 1128 files (boah!)

I used SLOCcount by David A. Wheeler at some point on various releases
(including 7.1.3 IIRC) and at some point the number of lines actually
_decreased_. I didn't look into it in more detail, but I think the
number of lines of code doesn't even come near to telling the whole
story.

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