RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Starting 5.3

Btw, I think if phar is a good way of deploying self-contained apps like WAR and EAR then we should think of including this in the default distro. It definitely has value. I just don't think we're quite there yet. Andi > -----Original Message----- > From: Stanislav Malyshev [mailto:stas@zend.com] > Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 1:07 PM > To: Marcus Boerger > Cc: Edin Kadribasic; internals@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Starting 5.3 > > > - you don't need a tool - well php - but hey you probbaly have that > > tool > > Yes, but they can't open it by any other standard system > tool. I.e. you always need PHP - and of specific version - to > work with this file. And I don't know how you expect all > kinds of proven and widely used tools like mod_rewrite, > .htaccess, etc. to work with phar-ed application. > > > - you can run phar archives out of the box - untouched > > You can't however see files there, edit files, copy files, > etc. by any of the thousands of tools made by people to work > with files. > > > - you can extract phar archives and run them - still untouched > > To extract them, you again can use one and only one tool, > which might not be available on the system you want to open > the archive on. That's all consequences of inventing yet > another separate packaging format on top of dozens already in > existence. Java at least used existing format... > > > - you can provide phar archives that do not require a phar extension > > What do you mean, how? And if you can - why don't you always > do so? Why do you need phar extension at all? > > > To your question "is phar so important that everybody needs > it in the > > main source." I think the above means it should. > > Sorry, not clear to me how exactly it means so. There are a > lot of extensions that live in PECL and do all kinds of > interesting things - why phar is so special? > -- > Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Products Engineer stas@zend.com > http://www.zend.com/ > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To > unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >