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Project Summary

GNU Autoconf is part of the GNU Build System.

GNU Autoconf is a heavily used portability-enabling tool for UNIX-like systems, especially in free software projects. It is a compiler for a domain-specific-language for describing library, header, and function dependencies of a project. It generates a shell script that can be run before building a package to customize the build to the system.

In a Nutshell, GNU Autoconf...

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has had 6,962 commits made by 133 contributors
representing 44,756 lines of code
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is mostly written in shell script
with an average number of source code comments
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a average size development team
with decreasing Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 11 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in March, 1992
ending with its most recent commit 2 days ago

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