[Distutils] Setuptools Bug: all files installed +x

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 04:23 PM 4/21/2008 -0400, Pete wrote:
>I'm not looking for explicit testing support from setuptools for
>testing here - I'm just asking that a bug that breaks a 3rd party
>testing package be fixed.

You haven't stated anything yet that sounds like an actual bug to 
me.  What nose is doing seems like the bug to me, in fact, since 
modules exist "in the wild" that are both module and script.  (You 
yourself gave this as an example.)

It certainly might be reasonable...  in a posix-only + svn-only + 
tar-only world...  to make the assumption that installed permissions 
could be based in part on source file permissions.  However, 
setuptools has to support scenarios where none of those environmental 
conditions apply.  (e.g. Windows, a half-dozen revision control 
systems, and zip files.)

That means that existing executable permissions are not -- and as far 
as I can see, *cannot* -- be used as a cross-platform basis for 
determining the permissions to give to installed files.  Some other 
mechanism to explicitly specify the permissions would need to exist.