Re: MIME module for PEAR

<arend@auton.nl> wrote : > 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? > Where Mail_Mime, as the name suggests, is targeted towards use with > (multi-part) mail, this class is used for basic MIME operations on > regular files. > It uses the Shared MIME Database to do this, this is the same database > GNOME 2.4 will use and KDE will also use in the future, which means they > will all agree on MIME types of files. >> - why don't the existing mime-classes in pear work for you? > Mail_Mime does not provide functions to determine MIME types of files on > disk (or plain filenames). Mail_Mime also cannot give a textual > description of a MIME type. >> - have you checked whether functionality your class offers over the >> existing libs might be interegrated into them > No, I didn't. But while it might be possible to integrate these features > into Mail_Mime, the fact they have nothing to do with mail makes me > wonder whether it's the right place for these features. >> - did you implement a caching for the mime-lookups? how? > Yes, I did. Both the globbing and magic rules are kept in memory once > they're loaded. It might however be possible to use hashing techniques > for even faster subsequent lookups. >> >> 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. > Hope I clarified myself ;) +1 for your class. Bertrand Mansion Mamasam