[Pythonmac-SIG] Mac{ho}Python architecture ready for review

[Jack Jansen]

On vrijdag, augustus 2, 2002, at 10:21 , Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>> - Even if the framework is owned by root I don't understand 
>> why this should be a problem... Where did things fail?
>
> The problem was that the framework was not writeable by me. In 
> general I try to avoid having files that are writeable by me 
> outside of my home-directory. It is a bit inconvenient, but 
> helps me from accidently trashing my system. But, even if *I* 
> have write-access to system directories, I don't want other 
> users to also have write-access to those directories (not that 
> I normally share my machine with other users, but this is an 
> issue for centrally managed systems)
>
> It fails like this:
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
> '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/Mac/Tools/IDE/Widgets.
> rsrc.
> df.rsrc'

Ah! That's an interesting problem...

Here's what's going on, maybe someone here has good ideas on how 
to solve it.

The ".rsrc" files in the CVS tree aren't actually resource 
files: they're resource files encoded as AppleSingle. This is 
the way MacCVS manages to store two-fork files on a CVS server 
that is blissfully unaware of this Apple-ism. The macresourced 
module is aware that a .rsrc file can be either a bona-fide 
resource file or an AppleSingle file. In the latter case it 
decodes the file and caches the result as a ".rsrc.df.rsrc" 
file, with the resources in the data fork. But: if you can't 
write the directory where the .rsrc resides this fails.

Storing the files as datafork-based .rsrc files in CVS will make 
life miserable for me when building on OS9.

Checking the files out with MacCVS will make the standard unix 
tarball distribution non-functional on OSX.

Hmm, I could probably pre-convert the files while installing, 
similar to the precompilation step for .pyc and .pyo files....

Could you file a sourceforge bug report for this, please, so I 
won't forget?
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