Hello LAUPRETRE,

  have you ever looked at pecl/phar? It can do that already.

best regards
marcus

Monday, July 10, 2006, 7:26:58 PM, you wrote:

> Antony Dovgal wrote:
>> What's wrong with PHAR ?
>> Why do you need another tool, which does pretty much the same?

> Nothing's wrong with PHAR... I am sorry but my question's purpose was not
> to discuss about why I am building such a tool. And the change I am
> suggesting would also benefit PHAR (if PHAR could set 'phar://' in the
> include path, it would become possible to keep relative paths in include 
> statements).

> I could explain, of course, why phar doesn't fit my needs, but I would
> prefer to keep this topic on the PHP core aspect.

> The reason I don't start a topic to talk about the tool I am writing is
> that the documentation is not ready yet. And I want to write at least the
> user's guide before asking for your comments. The doc contains a section
> explaining why I chose not to use or enhance PHAR... 

> But... OK, to resume, the main problem I met with PHAR was that I wanted
> to package libraries and not a whole application. I wanted to keep the
> tools and libraries I was calling from my main program as single package
> files. And PHAR cannot do that. I have several main scripts, which use
> several libraries, and I don't want to rebuild everything each time I
> change anything in a library. Think of it as static vs dynamic linking.
> So, I needed a tool which could 'mount' several package files on the same
> stream wrapper. It could have been done with phar but I would have had to
> change the URL syntax to include a 'mount point' as first element of the
> path. And, if I had chosen this way, I would still be discussing about
> compatibility problems... So, I created a new tool.

> If you want to read the documentation (just chapter heads at this time),
> please have a look at http://www.tekwire.net/redir.php/phk

> Regards

> Francois




Best regards,
 Marcus

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