RE: svn:executable property

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Barry Scott wrote:

> > No real need to make it OS dependent, as far as I know. Windows has
> > no executable bit (using file extension for that mechanism) and Unix
> > has only the executable bit (and doesn't give a rip about file
> > extension. So I think keeping things OS-ignorant is benign.
>
> I think it should be OS dependent so that it is clear that its not
> supposed to work on not-Unix. Or at least test for execute bits capability
> being supported on the platform.

in discussion of the patch to address this issue, the closest thing
to a consensus has been to *not* set the svn:executable property on
platforms that don't have executable bits, which if i understand
correctly is also what you (Barry) are advocating.

thus, the patch which i have submitted checks for
APR_HAS_USER and !(SVN_WIN32).

AFAIK no one so far has objected to this approach. it's not clear to me
that cmpilato's post quoted above is in disagreement.

-brian

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Received on Tue Oct 1 01:51:18 2002