Development activity in LibreOffice and OpenOffice

Posted Mar 27, 2015 18:08 UTC (Fri) by rahvin (guest, #16953)
In reply to: Development activity in LibreOffice and OpenOffice by zenaan
Parent article: Development activity in LibreOffice and OpenOffice

There simply aren't that many projects the size of the LO codebase. You could probably count them on one hand.

It's also one of the most important user software within the free software community because it's pretty darn hard to use any OS as a daily driver without a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation software that runs on it. These are basic software used every day in the business community. Without FOSS office software one of the principle uses of software in business wouldn't exist within the FOSS community.

Development activity in LibreOffice and OpenOffice

Posted Mar 27, 2015 19:48 UTC (Fri) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link] (7 responses)

Probably GCC, LLVM, Xorg, possibly glibc and PostgreSQL qualify, not much else AFAICS. And yes, I'd be thrilled to see "who develops <foo>" articles on those. The time of our esteemed editor allowing, that is.

Development activity in LibreOffice and OpenOffice

Posted Mar 27, 2015 23:59 UTC (Fri) by remicardona (guest, #99141) [Link] (4 responses)

Browsers these days are huge beasts, probably ranging in the 1M lines of code each.

Xorg on the other hand is no longer the huge bloated beast (code wise) it once was. Since the fork from XFree86, it has lost its userspace PCI/AGP bus driver, its ELF loader, its own pthread implementation, its own print server (and drivers), its own serial port drivers and keyboard/mouse drivers on top of said serial ports, …

Xorg may still support 99.9% of the core X11 protocol (which is itself bloated and completely outdated) but it is now a much leaner code base, which no longer is its own userspace operating system.

Development activity in LibreOffice and OpenOffice

Posted Mar 29, 2015 4:52 UTC (Sun) by alonz (subscriber, #815) [Link] (1 responses)

Funny. It sounds like one could take the stuff removed from XFree86, and use that to build an entire operating system…

Development activity in LibreOffice and OpenOffice

Posted Mar 30, 2015 23:32 UTC (Mon) by jwarnica (subscriber, #27492) [Link]

An unmaintainable one that exactly no one understands.

Development activity in LibreOffice and OpenOffice

Posted Mar 31, 2015 9:13 UTC (Tue) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link] (1 responses)

Browsers are far over 1M lines of code these days.

Development activity in LibreOffice and OpenOffice

Posted Mar 31, 2015 9:29 UTC (Tue) by tao (subscriber, #17563) [Link]

From a quick check Firefox seems to exceed 11 MLoC (.c, .cpp, .h, .hpp, .py -- 8M, .js 3M).

Development activity in LibreOffice and OpenOffice

Posted Mar 28, 2015 3:27 UTC (Sat) by leoc (guest, #39773) [Link]

A comparison like this between gcc and llvm would be fascinating.

Development activity in LibreOffice and OpenOffice

Posted Apr 8, 2015 19:40 UTC (Wed) by oak (guest, #2786) [Link]

X is pretty small compared to e.g. widget toolkits. Qt is several million LOCs, much larger than Gtk, but it includes more things (not just widgets). Eclipse is also a huge code base, but I don't know what that would be best compared against.