[Pythonmac-SIG] Python 2.2.2 and Tkinter installation problems on OS X
Michael Hudson
mwh@python.net
27 Nov 2002 10:21:15 +0000
Nicholas Riley <njriley@uiuc.edu> writes:
> What needs fixing in Python, IMO, is:
>
> - The permissions on installed files in lib/dynload should be properly
> set. Perhaps it picked up my umask, which is 077? But then they'd
> be rwx------, so I don't know...). Using the 'install' program to
> install files is usually the right way to do this, as it uses
> rwxr-xr-x by default.
There's a patch on sf about this. It'll get fixed (hopefully within a
few weeks).
> I did a 'find . -perm 711' in Python.framework and the only other
> file I found outside lib/dynload that had the wrong permissions was
> pydoc.
pydoc had rwx--x--x? That seems surprising.
> - "no module named struct" should be distinguished from "can't access
> struct module to import it".
Patches welcome :)
Cheers,
M.
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