I took Derick 's blog posting on Phar as an incentive to finally experiment with it myself.

<?php
$phar   =   new   Phar ( 'phpunit-3.3-svn.phar' ,   0 ,   'phpunit-3.3-svn.phar' ) ;
$phar -> buildFromDirectory ( '/usr/local/src/phpunit/release/3.3' ,   '/\.php$/' ) ;
 
$stub ...