Re: [RFC] Starting 5.3

Hello Stanislav, - you don't need a tool - well php - but hey you probbaly have that tool - you can run phar archives out of the box - untouched - you can extract phar archives and run them - still untouched - you can provide phar archives that do not require a phar extension To your question "is phar so important that everybody needs it in the main source." I think the above means it should. best regards marcus Friday, May 4, 2007, 9:36:22 PM, you wrote: >> 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. > I'm personally not sure phar is that great way of distributing apps - > it's yet another format not supported by standard tools and I don't > really see much of an advantage to using it versus just making a package > with any of the existing package formats and I see a number of > disadvantages - non-standard format, hard to work with packed scripts > with available filesystem tools, etc. But that's my opinion and I fully > expect some people to hold exactly the opposite opinion. The question is > however is phar so important that everybody needs it in the main source? > -- > Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Products Engineer > stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ Best regards, Marcus