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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Who's maintaining phar ?
From: bishop@php.net (Bishop Bettini)

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On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 ph=
ar
> > maintenance and evolution ?
> >
> > From what I see in history, it seems noone is actively working on it bu=
t
> > I'd like it to be confirmed. I don't want to take it over atm because
> what
> > I have in mind still requires a lot of work before something is ready t=
o
> go
> > public but I must first ensure this does not conflict with anyone else'=
s
> > work.
>
> 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 pha=
r
> 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


Well, it's a shame. I locally hacked phar a while back to suit my use
(proprietary) use cases, so I'm happy to help revive phar maintenance.

I'm doubly interested if Fran=C3=A7ois wants to approach revival using his =
new
PCS model.

bishop

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