I am developing a chrome extension. The extension contains an NPAPI plugin. The plugin executes a python script that comes packaged in the extension using the popen C++ function. During development all worked well. Once I packaged the extension and installed the crx file, nothing worked correctly. I found out its because the python script in the unpacked extension directory that was created by chrome during installation does not have the executable bit set. Once I go ahead and set this (chmod a+x script.py) everything works as expected.
So, my question is. How do I preserve the executable bit on a script file in a chrome extension package?
BTW, I am working on OSX and this python script only needs to run on the Mac/Linux version of the extension, not Windows.
python script.py? – rsanchez