i don't think you did understand. not to put words into his mouth, but i think he was trying to say that when you run into a bug/problem with open source projects, it's generally better to try to fix the software and "contribute to the commons," as he said. that way, users have one really good project with all of the features they need and very few bugs, coders are cooperating, there's less fragmentation, etc...
awl On May 29, 2011 12:30 PM, "tony Cui" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Matt, > I think it is my fault did not explain my motivation clearly. > I am not the one who has the power to tear Spymemcached up. Spymemcached > helps me a lot , I love Spymemcahced. I just want to share some thing which > is valuable. > Thank you for your reply. You must be a loyal user of > Spymemcached. I understood you completely. Since it was a open-source > project, I have my right to suggest and improve it. > One thing is true, I use my client to store 100000 keys in > memcached , and it runs well . For spymecahced it failed. > "I can say with a bit of experience, dealing with all of the > possible connection issues takes some effort." For god's sake, as a will-be > member of IT , I have to say we were born to solve the problems. I solved > a problem, I wanted to share with people. I thought it could help someone > out of trouble. > Now you are saying a great number of people use Spymemcached > quite successfully. People have the right to choose what they love, you can > not stop them. You never can. > Thanks Matt, you gave me a idea about my client's future. I > am looking forward to your reply. > > On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 3:12 AM, Matt Ingenthron <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Tony, >> >> >> On May 28, 2011, at 4:36 AM, tony Cui wrote: >> >> > I wrote a c memcached client. The reason I wrote it is >> because spymemcached has some problems, say "connection reset by peer". And >> the problems has driven crazy, so a idea came up , what about write a >> client. >> >> >> I'm never one to fault someone for writing more stuff they release for >> others to use, but I do personally believe it's better to be part of helping >> fix software commons. I have to say, "connection reset by peer" sure sounds >> more like a network issue or the server shutting the connection down rather >> than a broken client. >> >> Have you filed any issues against spymemcached? Have you posted to the >> mailing list? >> >> There are a great number of people who use spymemcached quite successfully, >> it's probably not necessary to tear it down it just because you decided to >> write your own. I can say with a bit of experience, dealing with all of the >> possible connection issues takes some effort. >> >> Good luck with it, >> >> Matt >> > > > > -- > Best Regards > Tony Cui
