From kde-core-devel Mon Nov 01 07:38:41 2010 From: Andreas Pakulat Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:38:41 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: why kdelibs? Message-Id: <20101101073841.GA18879 () barmbek> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=128859717021703 On 29.10.10 12:57:38, Gregory Schlomoff wrote: > 1. Out of the box, the build process is monolithic and involves > building a ton of things with a huge amount of dependencies. I haven't > counted, but there are probably 5-10 million SLOC to build. Just to set your data straight: wc -l $(find kdelibs -name *.cpp -or -name *.h -or -name *.c) ... 1278118 So its probably not even 1 million sloc after removing comments/whitespace in kdelibs. That doesn't mean of course that using kdelibs requires building a ton of things. Andreas -- You will remember something that you should not have forgotten.