(As a follow-up to this thread about src vs. source, I found this resource from gnu.org that describes the folder structure for libstdc++.)

But now I have a different question

So in my game folders, I need another good name for the construction files I use when building assets. So for example, I've begun to use Aesprite for drawing pixel art in my games. Aesprite files have a .ase extension but I don't use those files directly in the game.

I'd like to include files like this in the project repo, but I'm not sure what folder to put them in. I don't want to put them the data/ folder because that's for resource files required by the game itself.

Any thoughts? Where do you guys keep your non-program-dependent project files?

I feel it important to not have the program files used to create the assets along with the program data is so that I can easily create the distributable by only needing to copy the bin/ folder - which only includes the executable(s) and program's files in the data/ folder.

I have two data directories: The data/ inside bin/, containing the final data, and data/ in root, containing data sources. Anyway, I think I'll name the data sources directory as datasrc/.