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Re: GNUstep Handheld


From: Gregory Casamento
Subject: Re: GNUstep Handheld
Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 09:52:11 -0400


No joking... let's get started. ;) Nikolaus' estimate sounds about right.

GC

On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 4:04 AM H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com> wrote:

Am 07.05.2020 um 09:45 schrieb Andreas Höschler via Discussion list for the GNUstep programming environment <discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>:

Hi Gregory,

Hey guys... I'd really like to start development on a (UIKit compatible or not) backend for Android which will allow the creation of GUI apps.  Ideally what I would like is something that extends UIKit if possible.  Since we are talking about this just my $0.02.

Sounds good to me! I don't think that compatibility is a real issue. It just has to work. Can you roughly estimate the effort in man hours and actual development time for providing a GNUstep dev environment (GUI apps) for Android handhelds? 

Based on the very rough estimates of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14913652/how-to-estimate-a-projects-length-in-man-hours-commenting-code

and ssuming it needs 20kLOC it would be 18 person months or 3000 hours.

I would say this may be factor 10 wrong (up or down). Also note that coding is a small fraction of the of work. Testing and bug hunting takes much more.

So since we are open source and not a commercial organization it would IMHO translate into 5 years actual development time.

BR,
Nikolaus



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