Well, it's been a total failure

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Sunday 12 September 2010 18:53:06 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. :(

That would explain why the permissions are always messed up on dmd and phobos' 
files. There are some things that Windows does better than Linux. However, file 
permissions is _not_ one of them.

- Jonathan M Davis