composer/composer — comment on commit 6905e3a7aeaba38b7a813d15f74621cd13d35a66
File:  line 0
By Seldaek:

No this was to attempt to fix a problem on a system without GZ installed trying to *use* the phar, not compile it. Seems it didn't help though, but I think it's still a relevant change unless the Phar extension can work with compressed phars without having gz installed.