On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Kelly O'Hair <kelly.oh...@oracle.com>wrote:
> I would like configure to be executable too, but openjdk has a tradition > of not allowing executable files in the source repos. > > > To avoid the possibility of any executable binaries being put into the > OpenJDK "source" repositories, we disallowed > any files with execute permissions. I myself think this is a good policy > and I don't think we should change that policy. > > I have seen too many files creep into source repositories with execute > permissions that were actually mistakes. > > How hard would it be to teach jcheck to only accept executable files that start with "#!/" ? Or jcheck could maintain a whitelist of permitted executable scripts. Not having configure be executable violates developer expectations.
