DevelopmentEnvironment

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Overview

Project framework is based on Visual Studio 2010 Express Edition - free IDE. Subversion is used as a version control system.

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Projects are not directly dependent on each other; if dependencies exist, related interfaces and binaries are copied into target project codebase
Virtual folders should correspond to directories, except for below cases
- if folder contains files of different types - e.g. headers and C++, then we can create virtual folders to separate these types - e.g. "include" directory
- if folder has too many files to manage - we can split files by folders (but better to split files by subdirectories as well)
Any project contains typical directories on top level:
- src - all sources, including C/C++ headers and body files
- bin - output files should be redirected to this location
- build - intermediate files, byproducts of build
- etc - configuration files if any
- lib - used libraries
any project is included in one or more workspaces
- project corresponds to the build target
- workspace corresponds to the deployment target and has name:

"workspace.<deployment target name>"

General IDE requirements:

Language is not P-code like Java - these programs work in sandbox and use quite heavy runtime
IDE is free
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for each research area support several libraries implementing related features
each external library should have been committed as is, with all sources
customized library should have been specifically marked in the codebase
any external library should have wrapper code, functioning as a facade (limiting library scope to only used one and conforming interfaces to aHuman codestyle and design giudelines)