Well, it's been a total failure

[Russel Winder]

On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 01:53 +0000, BCS wrote:
> Hello chmod+x,
> 
> > Another source of misery are the contents of the dmd zip file. Every
> > time you need to set +x flag for the executable. This is so
> > ridiculous. Does the Creator accept one bit binary patches to the
> > distributions to make the solution a reality? It's open source:
> > 
> > unzip dmdzip.zip
> > chmod +x executables
> > zip -r dmdzip *
> > 
> 
> IIRC the .zip is created on a windows box so that doesn't exactly work. :(

To be honest I don't give a fig about how the zipfile is created, the
scripts and executables for Linux should come with the execute
permission preset.  It is a ridiculous irritation that after unzipping a
supposed binary distribution, I then have to go and work out which files
to make executable.  If Windows cannot hack building a proper zipfile
then a machine with a proper operating system should be used so that the
zipfile is fit for its purpose.


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