Re: [VM] Announcement: 8.2.0a (alpha testing) release

[Uday S Reddy]

Ulrich Mueller writes:

> However, I'm more concerned about the file mode bits: Almost all files
> in the tarball have mode 0777, i.e. are executable and world-writable.
> This wasn't the case for the 8.1.1 release.

Yeah, I noticed it too.  I had a disk crash since the last release and have
been relying on my backup disk, whose file hierarchy hadn't been set up
properly.  And, it is a pain to clean it up in Windows NT.

I made a note to use a Unix machine for building the next release.

Cheers,
Uday