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CMS code base comparison
By Vad Bars
Created 08/01/2008 - 17:41

  • Joomla vs Drupal

Drupal

Code history drupal

Source: Drupal statistics at Ohloh [1].

Joomla!

Code history joomla

Source: Joomla! statistics at Ohloh [2].

Wordpress

Code history Wordpress

Source: Wordpress statistics at Ohloh [3].

Plone

Code history plone

Source: Plone statistics at Ohloh [4].

(These graphs depict statistics for the core of each project, and do not include contributed modules, extensions or third-party plugins.)

Conclusions

  • All projects have been growing in size. No exceptions.
  • Drupal has, by far, the smallest code base. It's lean and mean. Joomla!'s code base is about 8 times bigger than Drupal's. Even Wordpress's code base is larger than Drupal's.
  • Of all tools, the Wordpress code has the fewest code comments. Drupal and Joomla!, on the other hand, have the best documented code.

By Dries Buytaert
Source: Buytaert.net [5]

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Links:
[1] http://www.ohloh.net/projects/3189/analyses/latest
[2] http://www.ohloh.net/projects/20/analyses/latest
[3] http://www.ohloh.net/projects/3192/analyses/latest
[4] http://www.ohloh.net/projects/70
[5] http://buytaert.net/cms-code-base-comparison