[Pythonmac-SIG] bdist_mpkg zipdist and unzip(1) (was ANN: pygame 1.7.0 for Mac OS X 10.3)

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Mon Mar 21 16:16:09 CET 2005


On Mar 20, 2005, at 10:02 PM, Robert Kern wrote:

> Robert Kern wrote:
>
>> Using /usr/bin/unzip to unzip the package seems to strip the  
>> executable flags from these files. Stuffit Expander seems to work  
>> fine.
>
> I've traced the problem to a deficiency in Python's zipfile (well,  
> one could equally say that there is a deficiency in Info-Zip's  
> code, but Python is still wrong regardless). I have attached a  
> workaround patch to py2app.

Thanks!  Fixed in r427.

-bob




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