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