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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] An outside-of PHP Phar creator?
From: pollita@php.net (Sara Golemon)

On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Kevin Ingwersen
<ingwie2000@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I just wanted to ask: Is it possible, to create a Phar without having PHP installed - and furthermore, reading that phar?
>
It would take *some* tool which can parse the packaging format.
Without PHP that means some purpose-built program in some other
language which would then need to maintain parity with php/phar
through various versions.

To my knowledge, no such tool currently exists.

-Sara