19 Jun
2009
19 Jun
'09
12:54 p.m.
It isn't so easy for setuptools to know which things ought to have +x and which things ought not just based on their pathnames or other metadata.
Unless you specify explicitly it in a metadata file.
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.) Eric.