Re: libmemcached-based extension

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Brian Moon <brianm@dealnews.com> wrote: > On 1/28/09 3:25 PM, Andrei Zmievski wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I've been working on a new memcached extension based on the libmemcached >> library, and I want to proposed it for inclusion in PECL. I realize that >> there is already pecl/memcache, but libmemcached is emerging as the >> standard memcached client library. It's used by Python, Ruby, etc and it >> provides a number of features that are advantageous to developers. >> >> The extension is currently hosted on GitHub: >> >> http://github.com/andreiz/php-memcached/tree/master >> >> I named it "memcached" with the corresponding class called "Memcached". >> Now, this may be close to the current PECL one, but calling it >> "libmemcached" and "Libmemcached" doesn't seem right. >> >> I haven't written the docs yet, but it's my next step. >> >> -Andrei >> > > +1 > > The work done by Antony and Mikael has been very good. But, as you said, > the work started by Brian Aker is very good. This would allow the PECL work > to be reserved to compatibility with the library and leave the memcached > logic parts to libmemcached which will be updated over time naturally. > Maybe we need to implement a driver-based pecl::memcache to enable user to choose memcache native driver or libmysqlmemcached.Like what has happended in the MySQL world which have mysqlnd and libmysql.