question for developers; help for my dissertation
Posted: 15 Apr 2011, 07:58
Hello everyone,
I'm a student of computer science and I'm planning on graduating in july. My graduation project consists in analyzing the metrics of a number of open source programs. Among the other programs, I chose this game and although studying most of the metrics starting from the source code is quite simple, there is one last thing that is not as simple as I thought.
Long story short, I need to know roughly how many lines of code have been reused from other open source projects. This includes both libraries that have been included with the project and code that has been embedded in your game(for example, reused classes, methods or just some algorithms). Of course the second type of reused code is more difficult to find and I haven't found any other reliable method than to ask the developers and hope they answer back.
I realize that keeping a record of how many lines of code have been "copied" form other sources can be bothersome so that is why I would be happy even with a rough percentage. Please remember that the data I hope you will be willing and able to give me will be used only for research reason and it is very important for my graduation to be successful. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you for your time and understanding
Corneliu Ilisescu
I'm a student of computer science and I'm planning on graduating in july. My graduation project consists in analyzing the metrics of a number of open source programs. Among the other programs, I chose this game and although studying most of the metrics starting from the source code is quite simple, there is one last thing that is not as simple as I thought.
Long story short, I need to know roughly how many lines of code have been reused from other open source projects. This includes both libraries that have been included with the project and code that has been embedded in your game(for example, reused classes, methods or just some algorithms). Of course the second type of reused code is more difficult to find and I haven't found any other reliable method than to ask the developers and hope they answer back.
I realize that keeping a record of how many lines of code have been "copied" form other sources can be bothersome so that is why I would be happy even with a rough percentage. Please remember that the data I hope you will be willing and able to give me will be used only for research reason and it is very important for my graduation to be successful. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you for your time and understanding
Corneliu Ilisescu