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

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

Marcus von Appen wrote:
> On, Tue May 12, 2009, Lenard Lindstrom wrote:
>
>   
> > Marius Gedminas wrote:
> >     
> > > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:49:36AM -0700, Lenard Lindstrom wrote:
> > >   
> > >       
> > > > 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?
> > > >     
> > > >         
> > > If it has a #! line, and works when executed, it should be marked as
> > > executable in svn/file system permissions.
> > >
> > > Marius Gedminas
> > >   
> > >       
> > I agree. But if nothing is to be marked 'executable' then all #! lines 
> > should be removed.
> >     
>
> Why that? The #! is not related to the executable bit.
>
>   
To me the '!#...' suggests the file is also executable. It just feels 
incomplete and a bit inconsiderate to then not also have the executable 
mod as well. Maybe the 'sh something.py' works on some systems, it 
didn't with Debian (eg examples/vgrade.py). But yes, overall it doesn't 
matter.

Lenard