Remove Doctrine Functionality from Library

README.md

@@ -18,10 +18,8 @@ This library has extensive test coverage using PHPUnit on PHP versions: `5.6`,
 Static analysis is performed with PHPStan at `max` level on PHP `8.3`, using
 core, bleeding edge, and deprecation rules.
 
-The Doctrine features included in this library are compatible with Doctrine DBAL
-`^2.3 || ^3.0`. This is **not** enforced via Composer (in case you want to use
-this library in a project that uses Doctrine DBAL `4+` without using the
-Doctrine features this library provides).
+> The Doctrine features for this library have been split off into their own
+> package, [`darsyn/ip-doctrine`](https://packagist.org/packages/darsyn/ip-doctrine).
 
 ## Brief Example
 

composer.json

@@ -28,18 +28,13 @@
         }
     },
     "require-dev": {
-        "ext-pdo": "*",
-        "doctrine/dbal": "^2.3 || ^3",
         "phpunit/phpunit": "*"
     },
-    "conflict": {
-        "doctrine/dbal": ">=4"
-    },
     "prefer-stable": true,
     "config": {
         "sort-packages": true
     },
     "suggest": {
-        "doctrine/dbal": "to use IP as a column type"
+        "darsyn/ip-doctrine": "to use IP as a Doctrine column type"
     }
 }

docs/08-doctrine.md

@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # Doctrine Support
 
+> This documentation is for the package `darsyn/ip-doctrine`, which was split
+> into a separate package in v5+ so that PHP version requirements could be
+> updated independently. Require that as a Composer dependency to use this
+> functionality.
+
 This library can be used to support IP address as column types with Doctrine
 DBAL versions `^2.3 || ^3.0`.