Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : loccount Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Eric S. Raymond <e...@thyrsus.com> * URL : http://www.catb.org/~esr/loccount/ * License : BSD 2-Clause Programming Lang: Go Description : Count SLOC (source lines of code) in a source tree.
This tool counts source lines of code (SLOC) in a directory tree, auto-detecting the language in each source file and omitting whitespace and comments accoding to the language's syntax. It then reports SLOC broken out by language, and a total, in either eyeball-friendly text or JSON for postprocessing. loccount's target audience is software developers. It is useful for auditing code complexity growth over time, codebase size comparisons, and defect projections. It can do COCOMO 1 cost estimation. The design was inspired by David Wheeler's well-known 'sloccount' tool, (which is packaged in Debian) but is more than an order of magnitude faster and supports twice as many languages. Unlike sloccount it has no runtime dependencies. It has a comprehensive test suite. It could replace sloccount, and probably should. To my knowledge no packages rely on it. It is well-tested, stable code with a low release frequency I am the author. I am seeking a package maintainer.
