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Primary language is... shell script?
Hi folk! There are two projects I am (or in one case, was) involved in that are indicating that their primary language is shell script when it's really c code or java. Openfire is most definitely java but it's listed as shell script. Likewise, Kerberos Module For Apache
(modauthkerb) is listed as shell script and is definitely primarily c code. What's making ohloh think they are primarily shell scripts?
Hi Daniel,
maybe the same as this one, i assume...
http://www.ohloh.net/topics/360
Regards
Chris
Hrm, I could see modauthkerb having the autoconf issue, but Openfire doesn't have anything like that. It's got a copy of init scripts but it's by far java. The details indicate 69% java (which it's more than that but no problem there) and the description on the front page says mostly written in java
=) shell script is labeled as <1%. kind of bizarre! =)
Hi Daniel,
I took a look at these two projects, but I'm not seeing the shell script problem you describe -- I'm seeing the expected Java and C/C++ labels.
Where exactly are you seeing the primary language described as shell script?
I'm currently seeing this with xdiskusage: the code is reported as 100% shell script.
On my My Profile
page where it lists all of my contributions.
Openfire
Apr 2007 to Present
Primary Language: shell script
Kerberos Module for Apache
May 2002 to Jun 2003
Primary Language: shell script
Aha, I think I understand what's happening here. The Primary language is not the -projects- primary language on this display, it's the primary language of what YOU contributed to the project. So in my case, at the time I had primarily contributed shell script coding to one project and that's what it showed, even though the project itself is definitely mostly java. Likewise, my other project that I was having 'issues' with, by the time I moved it to it's current repository, I was primarily doing shell script coding to it, so it only picked that up not my c code work really. I just wanted to followup in case others were wondering.