hoel@germanlloyd.org (Berthold Höllmann) writes:

Hello,

We are developing a set of inhouse applications using Python. To put our Python code to the appropriate places under different Operating systems, we use distutils. But we have a problem with the unix permissons. User A develops package a.py and installs it using distutils. Later user B finds an enhancement/bug, corrects package a.py. But when he tries to install this using distutils he always gets an error message when distutils try to set the file permissions this fails because user A is still owner of the copied file after the copiing process. I think, distutils should first delete an old file, before trying to install/copy a new one. Can anyone see any problem with this aproach? Or should the "chmod" command simly included in a "try:" block to ignore errors that might occur?

As a followup, here my solution of the problem for distutils 1.0.1: in the file "file_util.py" I inserted the if os.path.isfile(dst): os.remove(dst) as new line 40 in the function "_copy_file_contents". This seems to work at least for us. I hope, that something like that can make its way into the next distutils versions. Thanks Berthold -- email: hoel@GermanLloyd.org ) tel. : +49 (40) 3 61 49 - 73 74 ( C[_] These opinions might be mine, but never those of my employer.