[MonoTouch] MonoDevelop and read-only files

[Jeff Stedfast]

Hi Michal,

Could you submit this as a bug to http://bugzilla.xamarin.com under the
MonoDevelop product? Filing this bug will put it on the radar of the
MonoDevelop developers who are able to look into and fix this issue.

Thanks!

Jeff

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Michal Sartoris <miso at resco.net> wrote:

>  Hi,****
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> Today I have discovered that OSX is using two ways how to mark file as
> read-only. Either „locking“ it (in Finder ctrl+left clik on file->Get Info
> and check Locked checkbox) or unix file system permissions. So far I thought
> they are the same and unlocking file also adds writable permission to it.
> But real life is always about something else J****
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> And here comes MonoDevelop into play.****
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> **1.       **Text editor: If file has only read permission, MD can detect
> it correctly and when saving document it asks to save it (somwhere else or
> replace original file). BUT if file is „locked“, this doesnt work and all
> changes are lost without any word about the possible problem.****
>
> **2.       **Building (e.g. for files, which are set as content and copy
> always): If file is „locked“, file is copied without this flag and during
> next build it can be overwritten without problems. But if file has only read
> permission, file is copied with its original permissions and during next
> build MD complains about it and build fails.****
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> Especially point 2 is very annoying. Are there any plans to improve build
> process (or is there any workaround I can do myself?) to be able to
> delete/overwrite files without writable permission?****
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> Best regards,****
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> Ing. Michal Sartoris****
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> Resco.net <http://resco.net/>****
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