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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Who's maintaining phar ?
From: tyra3l@gmail.com (Ferenc Kovacs)

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On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 2:54 AM, Fran=C3=A7ois Laupretre <francois@php.net> =
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The question is in the subject. Is someone currently responsible for phar
> maintenance and evolution ?
>
> From what I see in history, it seems noone is actively working on it but
> I'd like it to be confirmed. I don't want to take it over atm because wha=
t
> I have in mind still requires a lot of work before something is ready to =
go
> public but I must first ensure this does not conflict with anyone else's
> work.
>
> Thanks
>
> Fran=C3=A7ois
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Short answer: no
Long answer: no and it sucks that we don't have anybody actively
maintaining it because it is widely used and sucks when nobody takes care
of the bugs and some of those bugs can even affect parts unrelated to phar
but related to stream wrappers in general.
for history about the creation of phar as a format see
https://blog.engineyard.com/2014/php-53-5th-anniversary and about the
introduction to be included to the core distribution see
http://devzone.zend.com/959/zend-weekly-summaries-issue-339/
unfortunatelly both Greg and Marcus went MIA after the initial 5.3.0
release so phar is in a bit of a hiatus since then.
Ralph Schindler offered to take over the maintenance of phar and fixed a
couple of outstanding bugs but somehow that did not get much further than
that.
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.devel/80420

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