Re: MIME module for PEAR

On 25 Aug 2003 at 17:29, Arend van Beelen jr. wrote: > I've written a MIME class which uses the Shared MIME Database from > freedesktop.org. It can determine MIME types of files and query for > details about MIME types. Someone suggested I should submit this class > to PEAR. Any thoughts about this? You can find the module itself on > http://www.liacs.nl/~dvbeelen/MIME.php.txt. The module is > written in > PHP5, a version for PHP4 will be available shortly. I didn't yet have a look at your class - sorry for that. But could you maybe let me know beforehand: - what are the basic new ideas in your class? - why don't the existing mime-classes in pear work for you? - have you checked whether functionality your class offers over the existing libs might be interegrated into them - did you implement a caching for the mime-lookups? how? Sorry, but we don't need a second / third / forth Mail_Mime or something. So it's a *must* to think whether features can be merged into one package. Stefan