Re: go-pear.phar is working 100%

Hi, I tested it the other day on OS X and it worked flawlessly (I was using 5.0.4). I'll try to give these ones a shot. Arnaud. Greg Beaver wrote:

Hi all, I just had a flash of debugging insight and found the problem with go-pear.phar. It is now working in my tests on both windows and linux. It requires PHP 5.1 in order to function properly, so don't tell me it doesn't work in earlier PHP versions. http://pear.chiaraquartet.net/go-pear.phar testing is appreciated. This go-pear.phar installs the cutting edge CVS versions of PEAR, PEAR_ErrorStack, Console_Getopt and Archive_Tar. Incidentally, the problem I had been encountering for well over a month was a bugfix/BC break in PHP 5.1.0's implementation of streams. If you have code like this: $data = fread($fp, filesize($file)); and $fp is a stream (like 'phar://go-pear.phar/PEAR.php' for instance), fread() will silently return no more than exactly 16383 bytes of the file. Earlier PHP versions returned the whole file. The solution, of course, is to use file_get_contents() if it is available. This, incidentally, is not a bug according to Wez, which is why we are dropping PHP 5.0.x and 4.3.x support from PHP_Archive - just too much of a hassle working around the many bugs and BC breaks between these versions. Streams handling is far superior in PHP 5.1.0, along with just about everything else. Greg