Forum OpenACS Q&A: Counting Lines of Code of an OpenACS Project

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1: Counting Lines of Code of an OpenACS Project
Posted by Michael Aram on 03/26/19 09:19 AM
Dear all,

in the context of a security audit, we have been asked to count the lines of code of our project. As far as I know, there aren't any tools that ship with a language detection configuration that recognizes OpenACS's specialities such as comments in ad_proc, adp files, etc...

What is currently the least evil to count lines of code in an OpenACS project? Has anyone practical experiences in this regard?

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2: Re: Counting Lines of Code of an OpenACS Project (response to 1)
Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 03/26/19 08:41 PM
You get some statistics from apm::metrics [1] (for example [2]). These metrics counts Tcl line comments as well as ad_proc comments, SQL comments, etc. You will have to do probably some fine-tuning for your needs, but this is at least a start.

-gn

[1] https://openacs.org/api-doc/proc-view?proc=apm::metrics
[2] https://openacs.org/xowiki/categories