RE: [PHP-DEV] Include fileinfo in core

Derick Rethans wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Kevin Waterson wrote: > > > This one time, at band camp, Antony Dovgal <antony@zend.com> wrote: > > > > > Also, to repeat myself here, there is also no way to use filepro > > > database, hwapi, msession, cpdf, dio, fam, ingres, mnogosearch, yp > > > API, Ovrimos, PayFlow Pro and a bunch of other functions without using PECL. > > > > I appreciate your point about not having everything available to core. > > The extensions you mention above are very specific to a task, where-as > > validating a file mimetype is quite a generic procedure. To this end I > > would like to see more discussion on the topic. Its very clear that > > you are not for it, but lets hear from others? > > I would also say it's something that many web applications > require or would benefit from. I agree. This is very basic functionality, not bloat, and would be _extremely_ useful to a lot of people. Best Regards, Mike Robinson