[Axiom-developer] gcl and noweb in the build-improvements source tree

[Bill Page]

Gaby, et al.

Every time I download build-improvments on a new machine, I've been
thinking about the decision to include gcl and noweb source in the
Axiom source tree (in source format) in the SVN repository at
SourceForge. It seems to me that rather than having gcl inside the
tree

  /trunk
     ....
     /branches/wh-sandbox
    ...
     /branches/build-improvements
      /branches/build-improvements/gcl
      /branches/build-improvements/noweb
      ...

what we should have done is create a new root directory

  /trunk
     ....
     /branches/wh-sandbox
    ...
     /branches/build-improvements
    ...

  /extras
    /gcl
    /noweb
    ...

That way, it would be possible to avoid having to pull all the
source for gcl and noweb if these are already pre-installed.

Regards,
Bill Page.