Composer Automation to build PHAR distribution

[szepeviktor]

It is not so easy to get a tool packaged in a PHAR file as you have to know the URL.

phive install php-compat-info makes more sense.

https://github.com/phar-io/phive

All you need

• a published GPG key
• the PHAR file uploaded as GitHub release asset
• and the GPG signature (.asc file)

[llaville]

Good idea. Added to the roadmap. But I give a lowest priority to this task and all other additional tasks.
First I want to finish to prepare the first release candidate of next version 5.4 that will enhance PHP 7 features detection

[llaville]

I want to release the final stable version 5.4 in 2 days now. This task will then be added in v6.0

[llaville]

We can also automated creation of phar version at composer project installation or update. What do you think about this solution (easy to implement) ?

[szepeviktor]

We were experimenting with this
https://github.com/villfa/test-phar-gpg/blob/main/.github/workflows/release.yml
but should be done in the correct order
https://github.com/villfa/test-phar-gpg/commit/5b843d015159a7ff64a6e5418b22b7bf8a92f039#commitcomment-44183629

[llaville]

I'm able to produce a solution (composer based) in next 1 or 2 days.
Just time to let me finish tests on https://github.com/llaville/php-compatinfo-db project for upcoming version 3.0

[llaville]

I've just finished to test POC in php-compatinfo-db project (see llaville/php-compatinfo-db#59)

I'll apply the same fix tomorrow in branch master of php-compatinfo. I'll keep you aware when it will be available !

[llaville]

No need to wait major version 6.0; It will come with bugfix release 5.4.2

[llaville]

--manifest will be removed in v5.4.2 until I find a nice solution to automate process to build metadata in phar (I've already idea, but i need to work on POC)

[szepeviktor]

Thank you.
I've just ran it on itself: Requires PHP 7.1.0 (min)

[llaville]

While working of CI implementation (#271), I found that humbug/box package cannot be installed on PHP 8 platform.

My fisrt approch was to ignore PHP version requirement on Composer install, but it introduced other issues.

I've then decided to remove Composer Automation to build PHAR version of CompatInfo, and reintroduced PHP 8 support in CI !