On 9/14/10 17:05 CDT, Walter Bright wrote:
retard wrote:
Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:14:42 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
retard wrote:
The difference is, on *nix the disabled executable flag prevents *all
users* from launching the application. The attributes have a standard
meaning.
No, the meanings are not standard between Windows and Linux. There's no
way to make them standard, either. The file systems are *different*.
Across *nixen. I couldn't care less about Windows.
Dmd supports Windows, therefore it must care about it.
A power user version of the zipper would support both sets of
attributes and would also provide an interface for modifyin them.
Except that I could not find such a utility - for Windows or Unix.
So please let's restart - what _exactly_ is the utility we need? Far as
I can tell what we're looking for looking for a zip utility that knows
how to preserve the executable bit on Unix, and produce otherwise
readable archives for Windows. That's it. From what I can tell, the zip
already available on Linux does all that.
Andrei
