RE: svn:executable property

> 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.

Yes thats what I'm advocating. Why not state when you will do it
rather then when not?

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

!(SVN_WIN32) does equal a POSIX filesystem API.
Can you have a APR_HAS_EXECUTE_BIT? Then you can write in
positive rather then negative logic.

> 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.

cmpilato's post (that I repied to) said that it should be platform
independent. cmpilato's follow up is that it should be platform
dependent.

Barry

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Received on Tue Oct 1 21:27:57 2002