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

Quoting Richard Heyes <richard.heyes@web-ideas.com>: > 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? Actually, no. We use it because the c-client implementation is deficient and pedantic in a few annoying ways. > 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. Ick. (not a useful reply, I know, but it's all I have time for right now). There are times when Java, having a standard class library and way of extending it, seems _so_ attractive. -chuck -- Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck@horde.org> Some fallen angels have their good reasons.