HAL

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Analyzed about 22 hours ago. based on code collected 1 day ago.

Project Summary

HAL merges information from various sources such that desktop applications can locate and use hardware devices. HAL listen to system events and notify interested application of device changes: availability, capabilities, properties...
HAL is a device interface specification and an implementation of this specification.

In a Nutshell, HAL...

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has had 3,523 commits made by 366 contributors
representing 83,547 lines of code
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is mostly written in C
with an average number of source code comments
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by nobody
with stable Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 21 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in November, 2003
ending with its most recent commit about 14 years ago

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