Edin Kadribasic wrote:
Antony Dovgal wrote:
What's the problem with having it in PECL?
I'm sure everybody interested in it can get it working in no more than
10 seconds using `pecl install phar`.
PECL is great, but it does require a build system with increasingly
obsolete set of tools (autoconf-2.13, etc.). Having Phar in the main
distro will open up a whole new way to distribute PHP applications which
would be a great advantage. The current system of distributing a bunch
of PHP files has some shortcomings.
Yes, to me the question is only if we want to give the message that
software producers should be able to expect phar to be there on 99% of
the systems. Thats the only way that phar has a good chance of really
taking off as a php code distribution approach.
I personally think that it really improves the distribution process a
lot to make this widely available. So I would say yes, add it to core,
just like we added ext/json because we feel that this is technology
people should be able to rely on.
regards,
Lukas
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