How to estimate effort required to convert a large codebase to another language/platform
- by Justin Branch
We have an MFC C++ program with around 200,000 lines of code in it. It's pretty much finished. We'd like to hire someone to convert it to work for Macs, but we are not sure how to properly estimate a reasonable timeline for this project.
What techniques can we use to estimate what it would take to convert this project to work on a Mac?
Also, is there anything in particular we should be watching out for specific to this sort of conversion?