RE: [PEAR-DEV] Mail/mimeDecode.php

> Quoting Marc Logemann <logenews1@morelogs.de>: > > > But the problem is, that this is also an extension. > > This is a dangerous line of thinking. I don't think it's very > healthy to go > around re-implementing everything that sophisticated c > libraries do in php user- > space - it's a lot of duplicated effort, it's _slow_ ... > > -chuck Very valid reasons. However, having php versions available makes the functionality available, albeit more limited and slower, to users without the appropriate extensions. This, imo, is a very good reason to have them available. You use the Mail_RFC822 class in your Horde code presumably for this reason? I think maybe a good idea to try and get people to use the extensions is to code in such a way that classes such as this use the extension function(s) if it is there (function_exists()), and have warning messages in either the docs or at the top of the class, or both. -- Richard Heyes