Re: python package default write permissions on egg-info files

[Richard PALO <richard%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Le 24/01/16 19:25, Thomas Klausner a écrit :
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 07:10:17PM +0100, Richard Palo wrote:
>> Well, I was hoping to be able to propose more than one possibility.
>>
>> I wonder if this is something that could more easily be taken care of by setup_tools,
>> perhaps as a feature request to 'egg_info'...  
>>
>> (long ago I filed an issue to setup_tools, not sure if that has progressed)
> 
> Or we just fix it in a post-install rule in egg.mk and perhaps distutils.mk?
>  Thomas
> 
> 

This would be okay short term, I believe.  At least one of the primary causes is elucidated.

In any event, even if some upstream 'fix' their distribution tarballs, there are probably 
those that won't even bother.

-- 
Richard PALO