ares-package on Windows does not have a way to set correct file mode to executable files about ares-cli

[ssuminahn]

@panreyes
Thank you for your interest and support.

This code is for granting read permission to other users in linux and max.
webOS is linux-based, it is to add read permission of other users of the file before packaging.
In the case of windows, ares-pacakge itself does not operate normally if there is no read permission. In other words, it means that the target files to be packaged must have read permission by default.
Also for security reasons we can't give 777 permission to it.

So we have decided not to reflect this. We ask for your understanding regarding this and your interest and support:)

[panreyes]

@ssuminahn Thank you for your response.
I understand that giving 777 permissions to everything is not the best solution, that was my quick & dirty patch but if ares-package is going to be used in Windows for packaging apps with native executables, a solution should be found.

New solution proposal:

• Tell ares-package which files should use umask 0755 through command line parameters.
• Apply umask 0755 to the files mentioned in the parameters and standard umask 0644 to the rest of them.

If you consider this as a good idea, I would love to contribute to this project by implementing it :)

[ssuminahn]

@panreyes
I'm so sorry, I guess I didn't fully understood your post before.
We knew that in the case of packaging an app or service through ares-package in Windows, the file permission could not be given correctly. To solve this, there is the way to solve it using package.properties file.

The format of package.properties file as below, and the file is located under an app or service directory like same path appinfo.json or services.json.

• Format of package.properties
  : filemode.<Three permission triads>=<filename including extension>

• Location of package.properties
  app/
  +--- appinfo.json
  +--- package.properties
  +--- (...)
  OR
  service/
  +--- services.json
  +--- package.properties
  +--- (...)

• For example, file names are test and data.json and to set permission 755.
  filemode.755=test,data.json (separator, )
  OR
  filemode.755=test
  filemode.755=data.json

I hope my answer is enough to solve your problem. And the missing guide on this will be updated later.
Thank you for your interest and we look forward to your continued interest and support in the future :)

[panreyes]

@ssuminahn I did not know about that method, thanks a lot for the solution! :)