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mallardduck/immutable-read-file
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An experiment in making an 'immutable' wrapper for PHP's file functions.

1.0.0(4y ago)112MITPHP ^7.4 || ^8.0

Since Dec 15Compare

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###  Health Score

27

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LowBetter than 52% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity7

Limited adoption so far

Community2

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity65

Established project with proven stability

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~11 days

Recently: every ~32 days

Total

13

Last Release

1792d ago

Major Versions

0.5.3 → 1.0.02021-04-24

PHP version history (2 changes)0.0.1PHP ^7.4

0.5.3PHP ^7.4 || ^8.0

### Community

Maintainers

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###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPsalm

Type Coverage Yes

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