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

2007-05-15 Thread P
From: Greg Beaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Both phar/PHP_Archive and PHK support this. The only file format that would allow this kind of shebang is the tar file format, as the first element in the file is a filename. The original design of PHP_Archive used the tar file format to

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

2007-05-14 Thread Greg Beaver
LAUPRETRE François (P) wrote: From: Greg Beaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] With all due respect, this is a rather severe exaggeration of PHK's talents. PHK does *not* use a standardized file format like ZIP, and the format is undocumented as of last Friday when I read all of the docs

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

2007-05-14 Thread Pierre
On 5/14/07, Greg Beaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And, if they don't, unfortunately, it will be one more reason not to switch to PHP 6 :) It has been several times by several developers that this specific problem will/must be fixed, no matter if whateveryoulike will be bundled or not. It

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

2007-05-14 Thread Tomas Kuliavas
And, if they don't, unfortunately, it will be one more reason not to switch to PHP 6 :) I hate to be the one to burst our bubble, but unicode is a killer feature and PHP 6 will be adopted en masse, so if this isn't changed, it will simply mean the death of userspace stream wrappers for

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

2007-05-13 Thread Greg Beaver
LAUPRETRE François (P) wrote: From: Stanislav Malyshev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ...and phar is the best candidate I know for this. I'd say the only one NO, there is an alternate PHP package format. It solves every issues you rose about phar (including the direct url access to a virtual