make methods protected access level so developer can override

[milos-silni]

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[stof]

This makes the maintenance a lot harder. Allowing protected access to properties means it is almost impossible to refactor the class without it being a BC break.

Please describe the use case you have that would justify that cost.

[milos-silni]

This makes the maintenance a lot harder. Allowing protected access to properties means it is almost impossible to refactor the class without it being a BC break.

Please describe the use case you have that would justify that cost.

I wanted to override writingIsTimedOut method and add option to use ms instead of seconds

[milos-silni]

in that case i will create a new pull request with changes from comment above

[Seldaek]

Closing as #1517 is indeed a much better approach than overriding code :)