Preparing a project source tree for CVS

[Koen]

Hi!

Could anyone give me some good advice in setting up a source tree that will
be controlled by CVS?
I read that one of the weaknesses of CVS is dealing with moved directories /
files, so I'd hope someone can give me some clues here...

Alright, here we go.
This is what I can foresee now at the start:
- "engine code" will be mainly ANSI C++ source code (so: headers and
implementation files)
- for the user interface, Java code will most probably be used
- multiple projects / applications need to be built from the same sources
both on Windows and Linux:
. on Linux, GNU suite is used (CodeWarrior IDE is also an option, any good?)
. on Windows, MSVC++ is used
- a few external C++ libraries will be needed (matrix operations, neural
networks, DSP any advice?); some might have the source code available,
others might have just a library with header
- documentation for our own sources is extracted from the source files using
Doxygen (HTML and hyperlinked PDF)

I was thinking about the following tree structure (I highly appreciate any
remarks/thoughts/suggestions you might have):

*** in short ***

project\
project\applications
project\applications\common
project\applications\linux
project\applications\win32
project\codebase
project\codebase\common
project\codebase\linux
project\codebase\win32
project\docs
project\external

*** in detail ***

project\
main root for the project's files

project\applications
main root for the applications that will be built from the codebase and the
external sources/libraries

project\applications\common
common project settings/build configurations/resources for the applications

project\applications\linux
project settings/build configurations/resources for the linux applications

project\applications\win32
project settings/build configurations/resources for the win32 applications

project\codebase
main root for our own source code

project\codebase\common
common source code (both headers and implementation files)
need to split in Java and C++ ?

project\codebase\linux
Linux specific source code (both headers and implementation files)
(most things can be kept common by using #ifdef OS statements)

project\codebase\win32
Linux specific source code (both headers and implementation files)

project\docs
Doxygen settings and extra files for generating the documentation

project\external
subdirectories contain downloadable packages from third parties
(might include source trees or library/header sets)


All kind of advice welcome!

Koen