[Distutils] Setuptools Bug: all files installed +x

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 11:49 AM 4/22/2008 -0400, Pete wrote:
>On Apr 21, 2008, at 6:01 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>
>>At 04:23 PM 4/21/2008 -0400, Pete wrote:
>>>I'm not looking for explicit testing support from setuptools for
>>>testing here - I'm just asking that a bug that breaks a 3rd party
>>>testing package be fixed.
>>
>>You haven't stated anything yet that sounds like an actual bug to me.
>
>What about the dangerous & broken complaint?

Which I don't yet understand, let alone agree with.  Simply asserting 
over and over that it's bad and dangerous doesn't help.

One thing that you particularly seem to be missing is that the 
distutils also ignore a Python module's source permissions -- whether 
they come from a tarball or not.