Hello,
I am currently implementing a packaging tool in PHP. If you know PHAR, it is
the same kind of tool, which allows to implement a virtual file tree in a
single physical file.
In such a tool, every file path becomes a 'stream-wrapped' path and the problem
comes from the difference in the way PHP handles these paths relatively to
'plain' paths, especially the fact that a 'stream-wrapped' path cannot be part
of the include path.
The first reason is that the ':' character is used by the stream wrapper and,
also, as the Unix path separator. This one would be easy to solve, but it would
be useless because the engine dispatches its 'open' requests to the wrappers
before searching through the include paths. And, the include path is searched
in the 'plain' wrapper code.
I have proposed some ideas to correct this behavior as a 'Feature request' at
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=38006. Could you please comment on it ? Even if
you think that it is total nonsense or a loss of time, I would really
appreciate to have your opinion on this subject before starting to modify
anything.
Thanks & regards
François
PS: If we can solve this issue, I have the same for you (maybe more complex)
about stream wrapper support in chdir/getcwd, and then the glob/fnmatch issue
;-)
