Re: MIME module for PEAR

On 26 August 2003, Stefan Neufeind wrote: > 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. I think the point is that it doesn't have any mime functionality other than being able to detect mime types and display information about them. So, my question is, how is it better than the existing functionality in PHP? (see http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mime-magic.php ) Klaus