Re: [pygame] file mods and svn props for executables

[James Paige <Bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 08:58:02PM +0200, Marcus von Appen wrote:
> On, Tue May 12, 2009, Lenard Lindstrom wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I was looking at the Pygame examples in linux and noted that many have 
> > the '#!/usr/bin/env python' tag line but are not marked as executable 
> > either by SVN or linux. Is there a convention for this?
> 
> Never mark anything executable in SVN repositories. The 

Why? svn supports marking files as executable, and I can't see any 
disadvantage. The executable bit will be gracefully ignored on windows.

>   #!/...
> 
> line is usually dealt with correctly by env(), which in turn is executed
> correctly by bourne-compatible shells.

Not unless the executable bit is set.

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James Paige