Organizing compilable projects

Wed, 04 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000

 package_name
 README.md
 Makefile AND/OR configure AND/OR install.sh
 |___bin
 |___lib
 |___include
 |___src
 |___doc
 |___test

I’ve been wrangling a new-to-me C++ project over the past few weeks, and I’ve realized that it is by no means the first bioinformatics package to use a non-canonical build format. I don’t mean to pick on the field. Science will always come first, but there are good reasons for following solid design practices even if it’s just a small piece of code for in-house use. You never know if a piece of code will become important enough to publish at a later date.

C++ on Dr. Eric T. Dawson

Organizing compilable projects