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.
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