libcaca

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Analyzed 1 day ago. based on code collected 3 days ago.

Project Summary

libcaca is a graphics library that outputs text instead of pixels, so that it can work on older video cards or text terminals. It is not unlike the famous AAlib library, with the following improvements: Unicode support, 2048 colours, dithering of colour images and advanced text canvas operations (blitting, rotations).

In a Nutshell, libcaca...

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has had 2,865 commits made by 9 contributors
representing 120,377 lines of code
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is mostly written in Postscript
with a low number of source code comments
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by nobody
with stable Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 31 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in December, 2002
ending with its most recent commit over 6 years ago

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