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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:05:14 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHAR was PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List
From: davidc@php.net ("David Coallier")

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
>
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Andi, if there was to be a cross platform tool to view, extract, add,
etc with phar archives, would that influence your choice ?

Thanks,

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