Leonardo Santagada <santag...@gmail.com> writes: > What about unix permissions are those supported on zip, and are they > important in a source package? I would think they are importante (and > not supported in zip) but I'm not sure.
The classic one is the “execute” permission on files. It's very important to preserve that (whether on or off) in distribution of works for use on Unix; and the Zip format doesn't support it AFAIK. -- \ “The best ad-libs are rehearsed.” —Graham Kennedy | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
