Re: phar command
| From: | Bishop Bettini | Date: | Tue, 01 Dec 2020 02:15:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: phar command | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 10:56 AM Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The PHP build system currently produces a "phar" command. See
>
> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/en/man1/phar7.0.1.html
> for a
> man
> page.
>
> Apart from changes to keep it working, the last time its implementation was
> touched was back in ... 2008. I'm wondering if anyone is using this
> command?
>
> My understanding is that packaging libraries as phars is not exactly
> straightforward, and people use different tooling to achieve that.
>
I also regularly use it for inspecting phar. However, I had thought - at
some point when time allows - it'd be nice to migrate it from php-src/ to
its own phar-tools/ repository. Doing so focuses php-src/ to just the
gritty Phar implementation and lets us develop independently consumable
tooling.