mksh

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Analyzed over 2 years ago. based on code collected almost 3 years ago.

Project Summary

mksh is the MirBSD Korn Shell, largely similar to the original AT&T ksh, pdksh’s actively developed successor, portable. It includes bug fixes and improvements in order to produce a modern, robust shell good for interactive and especially script use. It has UTF-8 support and extended compatibility to other modern shells.

mksh compiles on: MirOS gcc3+pcc+SUNWcc, MidnightBSD gcc3+pcc; BSD/OS gcc1+2; DragonFly,Free/Net/OpenBSD gcc3+4; AIX gcc4+xlC9; DEC OSF/1 v2,ULTRIX 4.5 MIPS, Tru64 4/5.1 CompaqC+gcc2; HP-UX PA-RISC/IA64 gcc3+aCC; IRIX gcc3+MIPSpro; MacOSX,iPhone gcc3/4+llvm-gcc; QNX; Solaris 8/10 gcc3+SUNWcc; Interix gcc+msc; Cygwin gcc; UWIN-NT dmc+msc+Borland; GNU/Linux/kFreeBSD/HURD dietlibc+libc5+µClibc gcc2/3/4+icc+llvm-gcc+nwcc+tcc+TenDRA+llvm-clang; Haiku gcc; Minix3; Android; …

In a Nutshell, mksh...

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has had 4,790 commits made by 42 contributors
representing 88,833 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 a small development team
with decreasing Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 23 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in December, 2002
ending with its most recent commit about 3 years ago

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