Re: [RFC] Starting 5.3

Stefan Priebsch wrote:

phar is a good way of deploying PHP code, as PEAR proves. As a cautious developer however, I am reluctant to using optional features that might not be available on my client's installation. And for regular users of PHP-based software, installing a PECL extension is not an option. If I cannot be sure that phar works on my client's system, I cannot use it to deploy software. Uploading a phar file, then pointing your browser to it and running a PHP-based self-extracting installer similar to the Windows installers we know would make installing PHP software way more end-user-compatible.

And given the problem getting hosts to ADD PECL extensions, you expect that they will allow a third party application to install things on their locked down machines. I think the first problem is how does it integrate with hosting environments and will those hosts allow it to run?

IMHO phar should be part of the PHP code, so that developers can rely on it as a means of PHP software deployment that certainly works on all systems, rather than another option.

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