Convert this project to a pure phar distribution, like phpstan

[hopeseekr]

The Problem

This binary package has numerous hard dependencies that break installatiion for things like PHPUnit, Symfony, etc.

Also, including phpmnd as a nominal composer package increases the burdens of the IDEs such as PhpStorm in needing to parse both phpmnd and any and all of its dependencies that the parent project has no need of.

The Research

From what little I can tell, I don't think there's any reason to package this as a typical PHP library.

How many projects actually use phpmnd's source code in their own apps?

Well, I happen to archive literally every single PHP packagist project, weekly, and so I'm going to check... Specifically, i'm going to have my own local LLM parse through for any instance of "use Povils\PHPMND".

STandby...

[5 minutes later] OK I"ve searched 100% of the PHP Packagist repos as of 2024-12-31 (the last time the quarterly full analysis was done). All 416 GB. Full search log.

The following have actual dependencies on PHPMND source code:

• Searching m for Povils\PHPMND...
  m/macfja/phpqa-extensions/src/Tools/Analyzer/PhpMagicNumber.php
  19: 'internalClass' => 'Povils\PHPMND\Console\Application',

So literally just that one project, that's been dead since 2021, uses phpmnd source code.

The Solution

1. Transition this project to a phar binary only via composer.
2. Do not distribute the source code into the vendor directory of projects.
3. Do not require the dependencies of phpmnd into the parent projects.

[exussum12]

There is a phar generate, have you tried that? We could attach a phar to the release potentially if more people find it useful

https://github.com/povils/phpmnd/blob/master/bin/createPhar