On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:51:15AM -0000, Eric Kow wrote:
> One thing I'm wondering about: rather than having a
> --set-scripts-executable flag, how about distributing a little
> posthook program that walks a directory tree and does the chmoding
> for you?

Hell, the existing --set-scripts-executable switch as used by apply is
already a hack -- you might as well rip that out and replace it with
the aforementioned utility.

Incidentally, that was exactly the workaround I used when I reported
the bug; since I only had one executable and I knew its name, I just
passed 'chmod +x thingy' as the setup argument.