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Wrong detection of smalltalk?
Hi there
Apparently Xapian is written in C++, but Ohloh thinks it's written in Smalltalk. Which is correct? Has Ohloh's language guesser got this wrong?
https://www.ohloh.net/p/xapian
Cheers
JP
Hi John,
At one point, this project contained a lot of *.st files in the /xapian-data/stemming/* directories. The counter assumes that text files named this way are Smalltalk files.
The odd part that I am still trying to solve is that these files don't exist anymore -- they've all been renamed to *.txt, in which case the counter should ignore them. However, I think the counter remembers
that these all used to be
Smalltalk files, and is keeping the line counts around.
It's all too smart for its own good. I'm still investigating.
Thanks,
Robin
This seems to have been fixed now. Thanks.
However, Ohloh now claims:
Decreasing year-over-year development activity
This doesn't match reality.
I believe this is a side-effect of the SmallTalk misdetection and that ohloh believes that the code side has decreased dramatically because as it sees things, around 700000 lines of smalltalk code has gone in the last year!
This graph shows the apparent code size reduction:
https://www.ohloh.net/p/xapian/analyses/latest
For now, I've added a note to the project description that this factoid is in error.
Hi Olly,
The Decreasing year-over-year development activity
factoid is based on the number of commits.
Ohloh compares the number of commits made in the last 12 months to the number of commits make in the prior 12 months.
For Xapian, there were 2096 commits made between 2007-03-09 and 2008-03-09.
Ohloh found only 1018 commits between 2008-03-09 and 2009-03-09.
So I believe the factoid is correct, and that the total number of commits has declined by about 50%. Let me know if you think this is in error.
Thanks,
Robin