Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 09/13/2010 07:47 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
zip on unix has no way to set the Windows attributes, and zip on Windows
has no way to set the unix attributes. Both have attributes that have no
analogs on the other. Both have no way to set the non-native attributes.
I didn't know there is an executable attribute on Windows.
There isn't. But there are system, hidden, and archive attribute bits that have
no analog on unix. Not that we use any of those bits, I'm just arguing the point
that unix utilities are not always better - in this case, they have the same
deficiency. Googling this particular issue brings up pages where people are told
to use python scripts to set the attributes in a zip file.
It's also nice to eat our own dogfood, and do something useful with std.zip.
Anyhow, I guess that underlines the necessity to do what everybody does
- assemble the installer on the distribution platform, and have it only
contain the files for that platform. An increasingly large audience is
looking at us, and we should avoid being provincial. I'm not even sure
why we're having this discussion - there should be no debate here: we do
what people do. This reminds me of the discussion of yesteryear - people
were complaining about C++ files in dmd having the .c extension, and the
right answer would have been to change the blessed thing to be like
everybody else has it, instead of finding arguments on why it worked the
way it was.
Hard to argue with that.
