一个Apache Ant任务来生成phar包？

Question

I'm moving my php projects to phar packages and while Eclipse (I'm using e4.1) generates phars nicely, I have a problem with updating project's deployment ant scripts accordingly...

NOTE: I don't want to use ant's exec to call operating system's php runtime to do that. I cannot always rely on it to be there...

A. Is there an ant task which can generate phar packages?

B. Is there a way to call Eclipse's phar export task headlessly?

C. Is there a way to execute php script by ant using eclipse's php runtime?

Answer 1

The manual states:

Phar archives can be distributed as tar archives, zip archives, or as the custom phar file format designed specifically for the phar extension. Each file format has advantages and disadvantages. The tar and zip file formats can be read or extracted by any third-party tool that can read the format, but require the phar extension in order to run with PHP. The phar file format is customized and unique to the phar extension, and can only be created by the phar extension or the PEAR package » PHP_Archive, but has the advantage that applications created in this format will run even if the phar extension is not enabled.

So you can just zip some files up and name the resulting file .phar.