[Ohrrpgce] SVN: james/7354 Distribute Game: export Mac App still needs to use the tar and gzip tool

[James Paige]

The copy of zip.exe that the OHRRPGCE fetches from
http://HamsterRepublic.com/ohrrpgce/support/zip.zip is Info-Zip version 2.3

The newest version I was able to find for Windows was Info-Zip version 3.0
from 2008

I tested it, and it does appear to turn on the executable bit for all
files, so it would be safe to use.

There seems to be a ton of misinformation about the zip format out there.
Most people seem to believe (as I did this morning) that zip has zero
support for file unix file permission attributes. The format supports them,
but the zip.exe tool has has no support for controlling them.

Anyway, looks like this solves the problem.

---
James

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 12:19 PM, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com>
wrote:

> So apparently I was wrong. Mac does *not* automatically set the executable
> bit on files extracted from zip files.
>
> .zip format actually does support storage of file attributes. The
> zip/unzip tools on Linux support it, the zip/unzip tools on Mac support it,
> and the built-in zip support on Windows 7 uses it to turn on the executable
> bit for all files added to a zip archive.
>
> What does NOT support it is the build of zip.exe that we are actually
> using in the ohrrpgce on Windows.
>
> So until I have resolved that issue, we can't switch to .zip yet.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 12:02 PM, <subversion at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
>
>> james
>> 2015-07-07 12:02:52 -0700 (Tue, 07 Jul 2015)
>> 123
>> Distribute Game: export Mac App still needs to use the tar and gzip tools
>> to extract the base app from the minimal tarball
>> ---
>> U   wip/distribmenu.bas
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