Re: Re: memcache, without a d, as in Venezuela

Someone was asking about memcache vs memached on IRC the other day and I advised them the memcache extension looked abandoned based on the PECL page. Having 2 such similar extensions is confusing - It would also be nice if someone could document the major differences between the 2 extensions somewhere to help users decide which they might want to select. Remi mentioned over on the PECL list that the memcached extension relies on a library that's been abandoned since 2014 ( http://news.php.net/php.pecl.dev/15377 ) The websupport-sk 'memcache' repository is not linked to or mentioned on the pecl.php.net project page as far as I can see. The documentation for 'memcache' on the php.net manual (linked from the documentation link on PECL) is not for the websupport-sk version - the readme on the websupport-sk repo mentions a "new API in 3.0" that uses a MemcachePool class which doesn't appear on the php.net documentation. I suspect it's likely there are other differences. It looks like Pierre has been in discussion about merging/moving the websupport-sk repo back to PECL but progress appears to be slow / stalled - perhaps someone could prod Pierre or take up the reigns on this: https://github.com/websupport-sk/pecl-memcache/issues/4 At the very least if someone could add a header or obvious link to the pecl.php.net page and manual pointing to the websupport-sk project, that would help users in the mean time. AllenJB On 23/06/2018 15:16, Jan Ehrhardt wrote:

Rowan Collins in php.internals (Fri, 22 Jun 2018 23:40:27 +0100):

However, it seems that the package without a d is actually abandoned. The official PECL package was last released more than 5 years ago [3], and the bug asking for PHP 7 compatibility is still open [4]. An unofficial fork apparently supports PHP 7 [5] but it in turn hasn't had a commit in 11 months, and has an open bug for 7.2 compatibility [6].

It has some PR's, even a recent one by Remi Collet for 7.3 compatibility. https://github.com/websupport-sk/pecl-memcache/pull/30 The open bug for 7.2 compatibility seems to be open only because nobody bothered to close it.

- Is there any difference, other than API design, between the two packages, which would merit seeking a new maintainer for memcache (without a d)?

The package without a d is AFAIK the only one that runs on Windows: https://github.com/websupport-sk/pecl-memcache/issues/23#issuecomment-358956029 Client & server updates by 'nono303': https://www.apachelounge.com/viewtopic.php?t=7919 https://github.com/nono303/PHP7-memcache-dll

- If not, should the package be officially marked "abandoned" or "deprecated" in PECL, and in the PHP manual?

That would not be a good solution for the (few) Windows users.