Repository Structure

Section author: Axel Huebl

Branches

dev: the development branch where all features start from and are merged to
release-X.Y.Z: release candiate for version X.Y.Z with an upcoming release, receives updates for bug fixes and documentation such as change logs but usually no new features

include/
- C++ header and source files
- set -I here
- prefixed with project name
lib/
- pre-compiled libraries
- python/
  - python modules
  - set PYTHONPATH here
  - extra/
    
    modules, e.g. for RT interfaces, pre* & post-processing
  - picmi/
    
    user-facing python interface
  - pypicongpu/
    
    internal interface for .param & .cfg-file generation
    
    used by PICMI implementation
etc/
- (runtime) configuration files
- picongpu/
  - tbg templates (as long as PIConGPU specific, later on to share/tbg/)
  - network configurations (e.g. infiniband)
  - score-p and vampir-trace filters
share/
- examples, documentation
- picongpu/
  - benchmarks/: setups used for benchmarking
  - completions/: bash completions
  - examples/: each with same structure as /
  - pypicongpu/: required files for code generation
    - schema/: code generation JSON schemas
    - template/: base template for code generation
  - tests/: self-validating examples for different scenarios
  - unit/: small (hopefully expanding) selection of unit tests
bin/
- core tools for the “PIConGPU framework”
- set PATH here
docs/
- currently for the documentation files
- might move, e.g. to lib/picongpu/docs/ and its build artifacts to share/{doc,man}/,