As PHP 5.3 is marching towards the final release, Eclipse PDT 's next version needs to support its new features.

Two major additions to PHP 5.3 are namespaces and bundling the Phar extension .

Especially used in combination, libraries could/should be distributed like Jars in the Java world.

The Phar extension provides a way to put entire PHP libraries or applications into a single file called a "Phar" (PHP Archive) for easy distribution and...