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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Starting 5.3
From: stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

> - you don't need a tool - well php - but hey you probbaly have that tool

Yes, but they can't open it by any other standard system tool. I.e. you 
always need PHP - and of specific version - to work with this file. And 
I don't know how you expect all kinds of proven and widely used tools 
like mod_rewrite, .htaccess, etc. to work with phar-ed application.

> - you can run phar archives out of the box - untouched

You can't however see files there, edit files, copy files, etc. by any 
of the thousands of tools made by people to work with files.

> - you can extract phar archives and run them - still untouched

To extract them, you again can use one and only one tool, which might 
not be available on the system you want to open the archive on. That's 
all consequences of inventing yet another separate packaging format on 
top of dozens already in existence. Java at least used existing format...

> - you can provide phar archives that do not require a phar extension

What do you mean, how? And if you can - why don't you always do so? Why 
do you need phar extension at all?

> To your question "is phar so important that everybody needs it in the
> main source." I think the above means it should.

Sorry, not clear to me how exactly it means so. There are a lot of 
extensions that live in PECL and do all kinds of interesting things - 
why phar is so special?
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Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Products Engineer
stas@zend.com  http://www.zend.com/