Re: [Module::Build] Preserving files' executable bits, once more

[Julian M. <ju...@me...>]

Randy W. Sims wrote:
> Julian Mehnle wrote:
> > [...]
> > The intent is to install misc/foo-bar to /etc/foo/bar (with /etc/foo/
> > belonging to another package and bar being a hook script), which
> > basically works ok.  misc/foo-bar has the executable bit set, however
> > when the file is copied to blib/etc-global/foo/bar, the x bit gets
> > lost.
> >
> > Is that by design?  If not, I hope this can be fixed before the
> > release of 0.28.
>
> Borrowing code from ExtUtils::Install::install() and ::pm_to_blib(), the
> copy_if_modified() method now preserves file mode and timestamps. This
> is the method used throughout MB to copy files, so behavior should now
> be consistent throughout.

That sounds very good, thank you!  I'm looking forward to 0.28.

Julian.