Garrett Cooper added the comment:
The whole permissions setting operation seems a bit convoluted.
I was hoping there was something formalized with install_data.py where I could
specify a default or fine-grained user/group/mode for files, but it doesn't
appear to be possible. I'll investigate
Changes by Patrick Andrew pand...@isilon.com:
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title: build_module failure - distutils ignores file permissions
versions: +3rd party -Python 2.7
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Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment:
FTR it looks like
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2009-January/1188084.html was the
original report for this.
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George Sakkis george.sak...@gmail.com added the comment:
what is your use case of having executable file here ?
I'd use the 'scripts' metadata for that ?
For one thing they are external binaries, not python scripts, and second
they are used internally only (through Subprocess), they are not
New submission from George Sakkis george.sak...@gmail.com:
Distutils ignores file permissions when copying modules and package_data
files to the build directory, and consequently to the installation
directory too. According to an XXX comment at
distutils/command/build_py.py, this is deliberate
Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com added the comment:
I believe that the default behavior should be changed to preserve
all permissions, with the possible exception of setting u+w.
Even that might be unnecessary; AFAIK to delete a file you need
write permissions only to its parent
