Extending include path to support stream wrappers

Hello, I am currently implementing a packaging tool in PHP. If you know PHAR, it is the same kind of tool, which allows to implement a virtual file tree in a single physical file. In such a tool, every file path becomes a 'stream-wrapped' path and the problem comes from the difference in the way PHP handles these paths relatively to 'plain' paths, especially the fact that a 'stream-wrapped' path cannot be part of the include path. The first reason is that the ':' character is used by the stream wrapper and, also, as the Unix path separator. This one would be easy to solve, but it would be useless because the engine dispatches its 'open' requests to the wrappers before searching through the include paths. And, the include path is searched in the 'plain' wrapper code. I have proposed some ideas to correct this behavior as a 'Feature request' at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=38006. Could you please comment on it ? Even if you think that it is total nonsense or a loss of time, I would really appreciate to have your opinion on this subject before starting to modify anything. Thanks & regards François PS: If we can solve this issue, I have the same for you (maybe more complex) about stream wrapper support in chdir/getcwd, and then the glob/fnmatch issue ;-)