On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 10:56 AM Nikita Popov <nikita....@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.
