[Pythonmac-SIG] bdist_mpkg questions

[Nick Matsakis]

On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Bob Ippolito wrote:

> The /usr/bin/installer and the Installer.app can have different
> behavior, and if either does happen to change permissions, then it's a
> bug in Mac OS X 10.3 (one that looks rather inconsequential).  It
> absolutely does not have that behavior in 10.4, and it does everything
> it should be doing as documented.

I've observed this bug with the Installer application as well.  As I said
in my original message:

> I strongly suspect this is a bug in Apple's installer; Under 10.3, their
> documentation claimed that packages wouldn't change the permissions of
> existing directories, but this is exactly what happened with the
> Appscript Installer 1.0 (10.4 appears to fix this).

> Where did that package come from anyway?  I certainly didn't build it.

It came with Python23Compat, which you claim to have built:
http://bob.pythonmac.org/archives/2005/02/02/python23compat/

Nick