phar command

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 8:59 AM Sebastian Bergmann sebastian@php.net
wrote:

Am 30.11.2020 um 16:55 schrieb Nikita Popov:

My understanding is that packaging libraries as phars is not exactly
straightforward, and people use different tooling to achieve that.

While I do not use this "phar" command to package my software as PHARs, I
use it every once in a while to look inside a PHAR. Don't know whether
that justifies keeping it around, though.

I've used it occasionally, and almost entirely to poke around a phar (phar tree phpunit-9.phar, for instance).

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 10:56 AM Nikita Popov nikita.ppv@gmail.com
wrote:

The PHP build system currently produces a "phar" command. See
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/en/man1/phar7.0.1.html for a
man
page.

Apart from changes to keep it working, the last time its implementation
was
touched was back in ... 2008. I'm wondering if anyone is using this
command?

My understanding is that packaging libraries as phars is not exactly
straightforward, and people use different tooling to achieve that.

I also regularly use it for inspecting phar. However, I had thought - at
some point when time allows - it'd be nice to migrate it from php-src/ to
its own phar-tools/ repository. Doing so focuses php-src/ to just the
gritty Phar implementation and lets us develop independently consumable
tooling.

Thanks for the responses! Looks like the command is getting some use at
least. It's not really an undue maintenance burden either -- I was just
wondering if it doesn't happen to be dead code :)

Moving it out of php-src would in itself be good (that would allow things
like ... actually testing that it works), but I expect that the
distribution mechanics will not be favorable (e.g. I would expect distros
to no longer ship the command if it's not part of php-src).

Nikita