How much do you estimate the CHDK code base to be worth ?

waterwingz

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« on: 28 / May / 2011, 20:02:15 »

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This might be one place to start : http://www.ohloh.net/p/chdk/estimated_cost

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reyalp

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Re: How much do you estimate the CHDK code base to be worth ?

« Reply #1 on: 28 / May / 2011, 22:11:47 »

I would expect that's an over-estimate by a significant amount, There is a lot of copy/paste between ports and a lot of generated code. The inline assembler in particular must throw things off a lot, since writing that much assembler from scratch would be a lot more work than what we do. OTOH, the original reverse engineering and the original dryos effort took a lot more work per line a of code than most regular development.

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waterwingz

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Re: How much do you estimate the CHDK code base to be worth ?

« Reply #2 on: 29 / May / 2011, 10:12:01 »

Quote from: reyalp on 28 / May / 2011, 22:11:47

I would expect that's an over-estimate by a significant amount .....

I don't disagree although if somebody were to propose a project like this at work, covering as many cameras and functions as CHDK does, I might throw out a $5M budget over three years as a first estimate.

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