I would support Garry's suggestion of git for source control. It is very flexible and well suited to this task. Each source tree is also a repository making it very useful for taking.a working copy out to contests. There are good free hosting services that will allow access to repositories from anywhere. On the other hand it is not huge fun to learn the finer points of it's use. For me, the main thing I did not like compared to subversion was the relative difficulty of seeing the history of a single file. Then again, subversion would regularly screw up my repositories. It is much harder to do than with git. Decimus 1 and Decimus 2 use very similar hardware. Wherever possible, specific hardware is accessed only from a single file per peripheral. For example, the ADC has a single code file and header with generic looking functions like adc_init() and adc_read(int channel). Changing the underlying hardware is then easier. Even if you wanted to use DMA or clever sequencing, it should be possible to hide this behind suitably generic function calls. Things like pin assignment and where printf sends it's output are determined by the IDE's configurations. It is common for an IDE to have a debug and release configuration. I have these for each mouse and a common code set. A single "platform.h" has a #if define statement that selects either "decimus1.h" or "decimus2.h" as appropriate. So far so good but I am less sure now that it is the right approach. For example, it does not make it easy to use different algorithms with different mice. Say you have a mouse with six sensors and a mouse with four sensors. How much common code is there? What about the stuff all wrapped up in edge detection and steering? They may end up very different but still have a number of common areas. Factoring those out could get complicated but should be possible. More recently, I have started to think in terms of shared libraries. Here, for example, I might consider the maze solver. This code might be common to several mice and an improvement in one of the functions could probably be included immediately in all the mice that use it. Again, a common interface hides implementation details. On 16 Aug 2011, at 06:38, Harjit Singh <zeetahhs@hotmail.com> wrote:
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