Eric L.

I remove this issue from the 2.0.0 milestone has nobody volunteered to take responsibility for MacOS X.

Aaaand, we have a winner! Welcome in the team and thanks for the offer, Peter. I'm happy to help and be patient with you if you're happy to cope with...

BTW I found an old note stating "Mac OS X users need a different pyxattr module, which can be downloaded from https://pypi.org/project/xattr/" but I don't know if it's still relevant...

OK, pylibacl itself doesn't claim support for MacOS, then get rid of it for now. I would suggest then that you take the same approach as for Windows: copy tox.ini...

And, last but not least, ACLs looks very different under MacOS to under Linux, so it probably couldn't work in a compatible manner: http://ahaack.net/technology/OS-X-Access-Control-Lists-ACL.html

So, you've met multiple issues here, I see: ## Test directories 1. if you haven't yet done so, you need to have unpacked the test files from https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-filesrepo in the...

Sorry for the delay, I was in holiday (not sorry for this though :smirk: ). I think something went wrong when unpacking the files, it should read `total 128` or...

Cool, thanks. No hurry, we all have a private life.

> and to eventually use the master branch /docs folder as the home for the website. This is already configured like this, even if the page is https://rdiff-backup.github.io/rdiff-backup/ and not...

Here the current settings, you probably should set-up your own repo the same way so that you can try your code more easily (without protecting the master branch):