Well, it's been a total failure

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 9/14/10 17:05 CDT, Walter Bright wrote:
> retard wrote:
>> Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:14:42 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>> retard wrote:
>>>> The difference is, on *nix the disabled executable flag prevents *all
>>>> users* from launching the application. The attributes have a standard
>>>> meaning.
>>> No, the meanings are not standard between Windows and Linux. There's no
>>> way to make them standard, either. The file systems are *different*.
>>
>> Across *nixen. I couldn't care less about Windows.
>
> Dmd supports Windows, therefore it must care about it.
>
>
>> A power user version of the zipper would support both sets of
>> attributes and would also provide an interface for modifyin them.
>
> Except that I could not find such a utility - for Windows or Unix.

So please let's restart - what _exactly_ is the utility we need? Far as 
I can tell what we're looking for looking for a zip utility that knows 
how to preserve the executable bit on Unix, and produce otherwise 
readable archives for Windows. That's it. From what I can tell, the zip 
already available on Linux does all that.

Andrei