Btw, I think if phar is a good way of deploying self-contained apps like WAR and EAR then we should think of including this in the default distro. It definitely has value. I just don't think we're quite there yet.
WAR/EAR isn't really self-contained - they are managed by the app server. So far we don't have similar system in PHP. And as I pointed out all Java *ARs are essentially zip's with some additional files inside and specific file structure. I like it better than inventing another file format.
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