[PHP-DEV] RE : RE : [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Starting 5.3

2007-05-15 Thread P
> From: Greg Beaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Both phar/PHP_Archive and PHK support this. The only file > format that would "allow" this kind of shebang is the tar > file format, as the first element in the file is a filename. > The original design of PHP_Archive used the tar file format

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: RE : [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Starting 5.3

2007-05-14 Thread Tomas Kuliavas
>> And, if they don't, unfortunately, it will be one more reason not to >> switch to PHP 6 :) > > I hate to be the one to burst our bubble, but unicode is a killer > feature and PHP 6 will be adopted en masse, so if this isn't changed, it > will simply mean the death of userspace stream wrappers fo

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: RE : [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Starting 5.3

2007-05-14 Thread Pierre
On 5/14/07, Greg Beaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And, if they don't, unfortunately, it will be one more reason not to > switch to PHP 6 :) It has been several times by several developers that this specific problem will/must be fixed, no matter if will be bundled or not. It would nice if

[PHP-DEV] Re: RE : [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Starting 5.3

2007-05-14 Thread Greg Beaver
LAUPRETRE François (P) wrote: >> From: Greg Beaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> With all due respect, this is a rather severe exaggeration of >> PHK's talents. >> >> PHK does *not* use a standardized file format like ZIP, and >> the format is undocumented as of last Friday when I read all >

[PHP-DEV] Re: RE : [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Starting 5.3

2007-05-13 Thread Greg Beaver
LAUPRETRE François (P) wrote: >> From: Stanislav Malyshev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> ...and phar is the best candidate I know for this. >> I'd say the only one > > NO, there is an alternate PHP package format. It solves every issues you > rose about phar (including the direct url access to