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Ford doesn't work when installed using nix/nixos
- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 458
- Forks
- 138
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
There's following problem. All data installed by nix is marked read-only both files and directories. And when ford copies static data using shutils permissions are preserved. So when kord tries to write data into read-only directories it predictably fails.
I have small patch which add write by owner bit after copying and it fixes this issue.
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Research direction
Reproduce Ford installed through nix/NixOS and trace the static-data copy path used by shutil. Confirm that copied files and directories can be written by Ford at runtime, then run the repository's available tests or a minimal documentation-generation check to verify the installation no longer fails.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- nixos, python
- Domain
- documentation, tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100