CLOC Changelog

What's new in CLOC 1.58

• Version 1.58 introduces a new version numbering scheme: odd numbers
• represent development versions while even numbers represent stable,
• released versions. There was no release 1.57 as it was the development
• version leading to this release.
• New Languages:
• Ant
• Arduino Sketch
• InstallShield
• Maven
• PowerShell
• Rust
• Vala
• New options and features:
• diff-timeout N
• Running diff on large files with many repeated lines may cause Algorithm::Diff::sdiff() to run for hours. This option sets the upper time limit on the duration of this operation for a single file pair. Default is 10 seconds.
• force-lang-def FILE: See the section --read-lang-def v. --force-lang-def below.
• skip-archive REGEX:
• Ignore files that end with the given Perl regular expression. For example, if given --skip-archive='(zip|tar(.(gz|Z|bz2|xz|7z))?)' the code will skip files that end with .zip, .tar, .tar.gz, tar.Z, .tar.bz2, .tar.xz, and .tar.7z (feature req. 32).
• Prevent "defined(@array) is deprecated" warnings with Perl 5.16.1.
• Show an example of alternation in the documentation for the --match-d
• switch.
• read-lang-def v. --force-lang-def:
• The --read-lang-def option allows one to replace cloc's language processing filters with custom settings. The problem with this option is that it overwrites internal logic that handles languages which map to the same file extension. Currently these are:
• MATLAB/Objective C/MUMPS -> .m
• Pascal/PHP -> .inc
• Lisp/OpenCL -> .cl
• The logic needed to handle these extension collisions is not easily expressed in an input text file. In any event, in most instances one merely wishes to augment cloc's language definitions with entries for new languages rather than replace definitions for known languages.
• For this reason, the behavior of --read-lang-def has been changed to merge new language definitions found in the given file with cloc's existing languages. Where there are conflicts, cloc's built-in definitions take precedence. This new behavior allows one to add new language definitions without sacrificing cloc's ability to count files languages ending with .m, .inc, or .cl.
• The new option --force-lang-def behaves exactly like --read-lang-def did in cloc versions 1.56 and earlier--it completely ignores cloc's internal language definitions and repaces them with definitions in the given file. However, one will no longer be able to count files with the extensions .m, .inc, or .cl.