Re: PHAR was PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List

On 9/10/07, Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> wrote: > Yes, I will ask Dmitry to share it with you. There's huge value in > having a standard format which existing tools can already manipulate. It > doesn't have to be tar but IMO it should be something standard. > > Andi > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Gregory Beaver [mailto:greg@chiaraquartet.net] > > Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 2:08 PM > > To: Andi Gutmans > > Cc: PHP Developers Mailing List > > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List > > > > Andi Gutmans wrote: > > >> 14) Link phar extension from PECL into core (possibly enabling it > by > > >> default) > > >> > > >> 1 0 -1 > > > > > > -1 (I'd prefer a standard format which can be manipulated with > > standard > > > tools (also some tests we did with TAR format we got much better > > > performance). In general though the use-case should be clear as I > > don't > > > think Web apps are the real target here)) > > > > Care to share how you benchmarked? I found an exponential performance > > improvement when I moved from tar to the current file format. > > > > Greg > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Andi, if there was to be a cross platform tool to view, extract, add, etc with phar archives, would that influence your choice ? Thanks, -- David Coallier, Founder & Software Architect, Agora Production (http://agoraproduction.com) 51.42.06.70.18