Re: [boost] Re: [1.32 Release] Draft tarballs are available

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-01 12:51:19

At 09:22 AM 11/1/2004, David Abrahams wrote:
 >Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> writes:
 >
 >> Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
 >>
 >>>> The first two archives does not give write permissions to the user 
(for
 >>>> the unarchived files).
 >>>
 >>> That's intentional. After all, normally you shouldn't be modifying
 >>> anything in the distribution. Or should you?
 >>
 >> No unix source package I ever downloaded had read-only files. That 
gives
 >no
 >> protection, really. If I unintentionally remove some files, I can just
 >> reinstall. If I want to edit them, I'll edit them anyway. Write
 >protection
 >> will just get in the way. BTW, just like it gets in the way with
 >> Boost CVS
 >> -- somehow all files are read only and I constantly have to change
 >> permissions or tell Emacs to override them.
 >
 >Personally I like that.  I don't tell Emacs to override them, I
 >use `C-x v v' to "cvs edit" them.
 >
 >There are CVS options to control this.  In fact, unless you have
 >CVSREAD set in your environment, CVS checks out writable files.

There must be more to the story than that. I don't have CVSREAD set, but 
always get read-only files from the main CVS yet read-write files from the 
sandbox.  It's a mystery!

--Beman