Tree Transform passing all tests, plus abuse

John A Meinel john at arbash-meinel.com
Sat Feb 11 13:55:25 GMT 2006


Jan Hudec wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 17:42:01 -0600, John A Meinel wrote:
>> For 'supports executable' should we use os.name != 'nt', or sys.platform
>> == 'win32'
> 
> I'd say not sys.platform in ('win32', 'cygwin') -- cygwin does not support
> chmod either.
> 
> In fact it would be best to try whether chmod works for each particular
> bzr-dir when creating it though, because fat or ntfs does not support
> executable even if accessed from unix and nfs may support it when accessed
> from cygwin.
> 
>> I don't know if win9x are supported platforms, but supports_executable()
>> would say that they do support the execute bit (when they don't).
> 

No, cygwin supports chmod just fine. I use it all the time. (It might
depend whether you are on NTFS versus FAT32).
But definitely cygwin supports chmod.

John
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