popt

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Analyzed about 9 hours ago. based on code collected about 19 hours ago.

Project Summary

popt is a command line option parsing library. While it is similiar
to getopt, it contains a number of enhancements, including:

1) popt is fully reentrant
2) popt can parse arbitrary argv[] style arrays while getopt(3) makes this quite difficult
3) popt allows users to alias command line arguments
4) popt provides convience functions for parsing strings into argv[] style arrays

In a Nutshell, popt...

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has had 1,563 commits made by 69 contributors
representing 16,550 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 average size development team
with decreasing Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 4 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in January, 1997
ending with its most recent commit over 1 year ago

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