yoyosamo/PiBell — pull request #1 by sprinkmeier (2013-10-12 11:06:19+00:00)
Title: make scripts executable

Hi Sam,

This change will make the python scripts executable.
If you then download a tarball:
wget https://github.com/yoyosamo/PiBell/archive/master.tar.gz
tar xzf master.tar.gz
the scripts will already be set executable (i.e. you can skip the chmod step).

zip-files are a dos/windows thing and don't support unix file properties well.
tarballs are native to unix and provide better support.
You can start to do cool unix-y things like use streams:
wget https://github.com/yoyosamo/PiBell/archive/master.tar.gz --output-document - \
| tar --extract --verbose --gzip --file -
(the file is never saved to disk, simply extracted as it's downloaded)