[Distutils] sdist default archive format
Eric Smith
eric at trueblade.com
Fri Jun 19 23:23:51 CEST 2009
Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:
>>> 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.)
>
> You mean a bdist? You can't "cross-compile" and build a bdist for Linux
> on Windows (can you?), or vice versa. I think we're only talking about
> "non-cross-compiled" bdists here.
I mean an sdist, which I hope is what we're still talking about, in the
context of using a .zip or .tar file. How do I specify +x on Windows? I
use cygwin, but what about those who don't? (Again, this is a serious
question. I don't use straight Windows enough to know the answer.)
> A metadata-preserving archive format wouldn't make this harder, and it
> might make it easier.
As long as the metadata is cross-platform, which I'm not sure it is.
We're trying to create a cross-platform source distribution, after all.
Eric.
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