Re: [Distutils] [issue6] all files installed +x

On May 8, 2008, at 11:29 PM, Greg Ewing wrote: Peter Fein wrote: Setuptools installs all files with mode +x (executable), overriding any permissions specified in the original archive. ALL files? Literally? All .py/.pyc files, yes. If that's true, then on Unix this is astonishingly wron

Re: [Distutils] [issue6] all files installed +x

Peter Fein wrote: Setuptools installs all files with mode +x (executable), overriding any permissions specified in the original archive. ALL files? Literally? If that's true, then on Unix this is astonishingly wrong and definitely needs to be fixed. -- Greg __

[Distutils] [issue6] all files installed +x

New submission from Peter Fein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Setuptools installs all files with mode +x (executable), overriding any permissions specified in the original archive. The consensus on the distutils mailing list is that doing so is incorrect, and potentially dangerous. It also breaks noset