Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:
Having an archive format that preserves such bits would probably be a
good way to solve all such problems -- by making it the packagers
problems to set the bits before packaging rather than setuptools's
problem to figure out which bits ought to be set after installation.
How would you create such an archive on Windows? (A serious question,
not trying to be argumentative.)
You mean a bdist? You can't "cross-compile" and build a bdist for Linux
on Windows (can you?), or vice versa. I think we're only talking about
"non-cross-compiled" bdists here.
I mean an sdist, which I hope is what we're still talking about, in the
context of using a .zip or .tar file. How do I specify +x on Windows? I
use cygwin, but what about those who don't? (Again, this is a serious
question. I don't use straight Windows enough to know the answer.)
A metadata-preserving archive format wouldn't make this harder, and it
might make it easier.
As long as the metadata is cross-platform, which I'm not sure it is.
We're trying to create a cross-platform source distribution, after all.
Eric.
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