--On Sunday, February 26, 2006 3:57 AM -1000 "(Cedric) Qin ZHANG"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Since there are PMD people maintaining source code parser, I believe we
can resurrect LOCC project and make it much better.
Just one other comment to avoid misunderstandings: we're not "phasing out"
the LOCC project in favor of SCLC. LOCC offers method-level measures not
available in SCLC, and we will continue to maintain it and make available
as a stand-alone Java size counting tool. We will also continue to
support the LOCC sensor for Hackystat.
What's happening right now is that we're building a different 'baseline'
for size measurement in Hackystat that involves metrics that are less
sophisticated than LOCC's, but applicable to many more languages, and less
of a maintenance effort to extend to new languages in future. (That
particular maintainance effort is not solved by PMD, which is Java
specific.) This makes Hackystat more broadly applicable "out of the box"
to different kinds of software organizations.
In future, I expect that we will get to a point that some organizations
using Hackystat will want to collect more detailed Java size metrics than
can be supplied by SCLC. At that point, they can try LOCC to see if that
provides what they need.
Cheers,
Philip
