On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 3:16 AM Bishop Bettini <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 10:56 AM Nikita Popov <[email protected]> > 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
