Ben Finney wrote:
Leonardo Santagada santagada@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.
I think the problem of execute permission should be handled on its own (where the format is part of the problem, of course). There are problems with e.g. setuptools which do things differently than distutils with respect to the execute permission on some platforms, and that causes some distributions problems (like nose not finding tests at some locations), not just for sdist command.
Whatever the solution, it should be as consistent as possible on every platform.
cheers,
David