[news.eclipse.technology.equinox] Re: PDE build don't set execute permis

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@xxxxxxxxx>]

> ]It is somewhat related to using the p2 director.
> Assuming that the metadata is set up properly, the director should be 
> setting the executable bit, this should happen by default for normal 
> product builds.
>
> Generally, the problem is that when using the director, pde.build is no 
> longer directly in control of what files are in the final result.  Ant's 
> zip which is the default archive format does not preserve file 
> permissions and they must be specified explicitly when creating the 
> archive.  We ran out of time in 3.5 and didn't get this part working.

Does this apply only to the zip files created by the launcher, or also to jars?

I'm doing a headless product build directly into a repo; later I install it using the director (not during the ant build).  All configurations are built on a Linux host.  For Linux it comes out OK, but for Windows eclipse.exe is not executable - whether this matters depends on exactly what tools are used to send the installation to a Windows machine, but IIRC it won't run if you use Cygwin tar to unpack the result.

Sounds like that may be different from the bug you describe here though.