Re: RE : [PHP-DEV] Extending include path to support stream wrappers

Hello LAUPRETRE, have you ever looked at pecl/phar? It can do that already. best regards marcus Monday, July 10, 2006, 7:26:58 PM, you wrote: > Antony Dovgal wrote: >> What's wrong with PHAR ? >> Why do you need another tool, which does pretty much the same? > Nothing's wrong with PHAR... I am sorry but my question's purpose was not > to discuss about why I am building such a tool. And the change I am > suggesting would also benefit PHAR (if PHAR could set 'phar://' in the > include path, it would become possible to keep relative paths in include statements). > I could explain, of course, why phar doesn't fit my needs, but I would > prefer to keep this topic on the PHP core aspect. > The reason I don't start a topic to talk about the tool I am writing is > that the documentation is not ready yet. And I want to write at least the > user's guide before asking for your comments. The doc contains a section > explaining why I chose not to use or enhance PHAR... > But... OK, to resume, the main problem I met with PHAR was that I wanted > to package libraries and not a whole application. I wanted to keep the > tools and libraries I was calling from my main program as single package > files. And PHAR cannot do that. I have several main scripts, which use > several libraries, and I don't want to rebuild everything each time I > change anything in a library. Think of it as static vs dynamic linking. > So, I needed a tool which could 'mount' several package files on the same > stream wrapper. It could have been done with phar but I would have had to > change the URL syntax to include a 'mount point' as first element of the > path. And, if I had chosen this way, I would still be discussing about > compatibility problems... So, I created a new tool. > If you want to read the documentation (just chapter heads at this time), > please have a look at http://www.tekwire.net/redir.php/phk > Regards > Francois Best regards, Marcus