Re: [Pythoncard-devel] RPMs for upcoming 0.8.2 release

[Andy T. <an...@ha...>]

Phil Edwards wrote:
> Just another thought that has occurred to me which I'd appreciate some
> feedback on.
> 
> In the current build of the RPMs for PythonCard, only the samples
> launcher itself is made executable. In response to a bug report filed by
> someone earlier in the year I looked at what would be involved in
> shipping the RPM so that *all* of the samples were set to be executable,
> meaning that a given sample app could be run directly without having to
> either type 'python /path/to/required/sample' or explicitly fire up the
> samples launcher. It's simple to do, just requiring some extra 'chmod
> 755' lines in the RPM spec file.
> 
> Does anybody have any strong feelings on this one way or the other?
> 

Sounds like a good plan. We should also make the tool applications 
executable as well.

It would be a benefit in the Debian package as well.

Does this need to be in the packaging scripts? Or can we just set the 
file permissions in CVS and let distutils take care of it for us?

Regards,
Andy
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