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metasyntactical/mime
====================

The MetaSyntactical MIMEtype detection component

v3.0.0(4y ago)51.2k[1 PRs](https://github.com/MetaSyntactical/Mime/pulls)1MITPHP 8.0.\*

Since Sep 10Compare

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###  Health Score

33

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LowBetter than 75% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity19

Limited adoption so far

Community5

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity73

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 ~648 days

Recently: every ~557 days

Total

6

Last Release

1749d ago

Major Versions

1.0.1 → v2.0.02017-04-22

2.x-dev → v3.0.02021-07-29

PHP version history (4 changes)1.0.0PHP >=5.3.10

v2.0.0PHP >=5.6.28, <7.2.0

2.1.0PHP ~7.2|~7.3|~7.4

v3.0.0PHP 8.0.\*

### Community

Maintainers

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Tags

mimelibrary

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPsalm

Type Coverage Yes

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