I will point out that if xinstall copies directories, that raises the
question of how to apply mode and owner/groups to the installed
directories. owner/group should be safe to recurse, but mode wouldn't
be.
On Feb 14, 2007, at 3:31 AM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
On Feb 13, 2007, at 11:19 PM, Kevin Ballard wrote:
xinstall and file copy are different - xinstall is implemented in
pextlib, and apparently doesn't recursively copy directories. It's
a shame.
So yeah, while xinstall won't handle directories, copy will do it
just fine. The difference is that copy won't handle file
permissions, but xinstall does.
I was trying to copy the semantics of install(1) in order to obey
what seemed to be the principle of least astonishment. That said,
I'm having a hard time thinking of just how and where the world
would end if someone were to enhance it to actually copy
directories. I was probably being too conservative.
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