I am trying create eggs for a package that relies on a compiled executable that is distributed with the package. I can get the executable into the egg fine. It is declared as package_data and I set zip_safe=False to force easy_install to unpack the egg. My problem is that the executable is always extracted without execution permissions (our platform is UNIX). After some experimenting this appears to be a general problem with the zip file module not honouring execution permissions. I know permissions can be set in zip files because the InfoZip tools do it. Currently I have a hack working that tries to change the permissions on the executable when the package is imported but this won't work if the egg is installed by a different user to the importer. I am wondering if there is a way round this with setuptools. Some sort of hook to fix permissions when unpacking a non-zipsafe egg would be good. Thanks, Stephen. --- Stephen Pascoe 01235 445980 British Atmospheric Data Centre Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, CCLRC