Re: Recent trends in the codebase size

2017-01-30 Thread Hal Murray
fallenpega...@gmail.com said: > My inclination is that when more clock types show up, they get a driver > running in it's own process space, and exporting a SHM buffer. We should clean up the SHM interface first. The ntpd side should be read only. > The problem with covering existing drivers t

Re: Recent trends in the codebase size

2017-01-29 Thread Mark Atwood
My inclination is that when more clock types show up, they get a driver running in it's own process space, and exporting a SHM buffer. The problem with covering existing drivers to that is... testing them. ..m On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 10:49 PM Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Hal Murray : > > It's not

Re: Recent trends in the codebase size

2017-01-29 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Hal Murray : > It's not clear that there is any good way to have a starting point reference. > If you give examples of all the possibilities, it will be too complicated. > You can start with an existing driver. That's easy if you already know your > way around, but there is likely to be a lot

Re: Recent trends in the codebase size

2017-01-29 Thread Hal Murray
fallenpega...@gmail.com said: > Is there a reason to keep dumbclock? Maybe it exists as a starting > framework for when someone wants to write a new clockdriver? It's not good for much more. It's not clear that there is any good way to have a starting point reference. If you give examples o

Re: Recent trends in the codebase size

2017-01-29 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Mark Atwood : > Kill it Will do. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Recent trends in the codebase size

2017-01-29 Thread Mark Atwood
Kill it On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 9:05 PM Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Mark Atwood : > > Is there a reason to keep dumbclock? Maybe it exists as a starting > > framework for when someone wants to write a new clockdriver? > > Actually, I only left dumbclock in because you said "keep it for the lulz"

Re: Recent trends in the codebase size

2017-01-29 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Mark Atwood : > Is there a reason to keep dumbclock? Maybe it exists as a starting > framework for when someone wants to write a new clockdriver? Actually, I only left dumbclock in because you said "keep it for the lulz" during the conversation about some other refclock that we ended up dropping

Re: Recent trends in the codebase size

2017-01-29 Thread Mark Atwood
Is there a reason to keep dumbclock? Maybe it exists as a starting framework for when someone wants to write a new clockdriver? ..m On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 5:36 AM Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Here are the full current stats: > > all71320 (100.00%) in 298 files > c 60694

Recent trends in the codebase size

2017-01-29 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Here are the full current stats: all71320 (100.00%) in 298 files c 60694 (85.10%) in 152 files python 7472 (10.48%) in 48 files shell 1444 (2.02%) in 7 files yacc1255 (1.76%) in 1 files waf 455 (0.64%) in 11 files We're down to