Thank you very much for answering my questions.
mkopta
On 10/30/2011 10:33 AM, Anselm R Garbe wrote:
> On 30 October 2011 08:53, Martin Kopta<martin_AT_kopta.eu> wrote:
>> "dwm is only a single binary, and its source code is intended to never
>> exceed 2000 SLOC." (http://dwm.suckless.org/)
>>
>> $ wc< dwm.c
>> 2069 6745 52319
>> $
>>
>> First 25 LOC is license and there is some whitespace too, however dwm.c is
>> obviously somewhere around 2 kSLOC.
>
> Well, as others put it already, it is around 1800 SLOC currently. And
> the current code base contains plenty opportunities to remove a bunch
> of features that were added during time. I removed features a couple
> of times in the past. We revised the feature set quite often and still
> now when deciding the question about nmaster.
>
> Apart from this, the boundary of 2kSLOC was chosen kind of randomly. I
> personally feel that an average mind like myself can grasp 2k SLOC
> easily and that this is a good strategy to keep the code readable and
> maintainable.
>
> Cheers,
> Anselm
>
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