| RE: [eclipse-dev] How much effort has gone into developing Equinox |
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It turns out a number of people want me to
respond to this list. Sorry it has taken me so long to
respond. There seems to be two questions: 1)
estimate on number of deployments, and 2) effort to build Equinox. Unfortunately
there is not a perfect answer for either. However I can suggest
some resources or links. For number of deployments there are a
couple of research reports that talk about RCP adoption. These
reports are listed on the Eclipse wiki but here are the links. http://wiki.eclipse.org/images/d/d4/Eclipse_Adoption_Study_2006_Full_Version.pdf http://wiki.eclipse.org/images/0/05/Eclipse_Custom_Survey_8_24_06_Public_Version.pdf For the effort to build Equinox, one way
of looking at it is based on stats generated from a site called Ohloh. This
site uses a formula based on loc and contributors. I admit this can
lead to bogus results but it is a start. The other thing with Ohloh is
that the LOC of the Eclipse
Project is high at 6+ million, my understanding is a more realistic number
is approx. 3 million or say 1000 person years. The Ohloh numbers
for Equinox seem low at 61K
and 15 person years. I am sure Jeff and team have been working a
lot harder than that. J Also remember, that Equinox is a small runtime. Most
people use a lot of the frameworks that are included on top of Equinox. Not sure if this helps? Ian From: Ian Skerrett
[mailto: Cameron, I think this e-mail list is meant for
development issues with the Eclipse Platform project. Send me an e-mail
to ian.skerrett@xxxxxxxxxxx and I
will try to help you out. From: eclipse-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:eclipse-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Cameron Ross Hello, I'm building a case for using Equinox as opposed to in-house
development of a plugin framework. Can someone given a reasonable
estimate as to how many person hours have gone into the development of
Equinox? Also, are there any estimates as to the number of Equinox
installations that there are out there (i.e. deployment footprint)? This
information would help to support my arguments for using Equinox. Thanks much, Cameron Ross President, Symboticware Program Lead, Interoperable Systems, MIRARCO |