Re: [RFC] Starting 5.3
| From: | Lukas Kahwe Smith | Date: | Fri, 04 May 2007 19:14:22 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Starting 5.3 | ||
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Edin Kadribasic wrote:
Antony Dovgal wrote:Yes, to me the question is only if we want to give the message that software producers should be able to expect phar to be there on 99% of the systems. Thats the only way that phar has a good chance of really taking off as a php code distribution approach. I personally think that it really improves the distribution process a lot to make this widely available. So I would say yes, add it to core, just like we added ext/json because we feel that this is technology people should be able to rely on. regards, LukasWhat's the problem with having it in PECL? I'm sure everybody interested in it can get it working in no more than 10 seconds usingPECL is great, but it does require a build system with increasingly obsolete set of tools (autoconf-2.13, etc.). Having Phar in the main distro will open up a whole new way to distribute PHP applications which would be a great advantage. The current system of distributing a bunch of PHP files has some shortcomings.pecl install phar.