File System Layout

[madebyjeffrey]

Project Directory: .

src/                 All source files that are multiplatform for game code
include/         All include files.
projects/        All projects for different platforms

Under src and include:

platform specific source files:
mac, windows, linux

Any specific sections:
May add libraries such as "collision" but will include platform specific code as above if needed.    

Under projects:

cmake/          
visualstudio10/
xcode/
gnumake/

[erisco]

I do not prefer the multi-platform and platform-specific sources to be in the same ancestry. This is just a preference though. Other than that, I am fine with this new structure.

[madebyjeffrey]

Please give me a specific example of what you mean, your words are not entirely clear. Also, an alternative should be provided if there is something better you can recommend.

[erisco]

src/mac makes mac-specific sources a child directory of multi-platform sources. I'd prefer src to contain exclusively multi-platform sources, and to put platform-specific sources in a directory such as platform/mac. This makes it easier to talk about all multi-platform sources and all platform-specific sources separately.

From a utility standpoint, for example, if I want to search for all multi-platform sources with the keyword "PhysicalEntity" using grep, I don't want to have to do fancy-work to exclude the platform-specific directories. From a logical standpoint, platform-specific isn't a specialization or refinement of multi-platform; rather, the two are mutually exclusive. Therefore, just like you wouldn't put your jpeg pictures in your text document directory, it doesn't make sense to put platform-specific sources in a multi-platform directory.

If it is desired to still group multi-platform and platform-specific together, we can have src/multi for multi-platform and src/mac, src/win, src/unix, and so on.