Appendix B. Building Large Source Trees
When you are dealing with a large number of projects (say, more than 100), you need to organize your projects and have a build process that is efficient, yet flexible enough to meet the needs of each of the projects. In this appendix, I describe one means for organizing your source code, as well as an approach for integrating a build process into that structure. The structure I describe won’t suit every team or every product, but the important ideas to take away are how to modularize your build process and how to introduce common build elements into all products that are being built.
You can organize your source into trees of related projects, with the most common projects at the top. This organization assumes ...
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