Through some of my last few projects using Django and Memcached I kept running into the problem that python-memcached appears to no longer be maintained[1], and even before that the release frequency was getting quite low.
For Django pylibmc is an alternative, but having to rely on an underlying C library is a bit annoying and the library does act a little differently. Give the state of python-memcached I think Django should support pymemcache[2]. It is actively maintained by Pintrest, with appropriate opensource licensing, is fully python, and appears to be a great library. There appear to have been attempts by thirdparties to make a Django cache backend for it, but none of those are maintained. Bringing the support into core, and replacing python-memcached with pymemcache may be a better good long term solution than continuing to support and recommend an unmaintained library when there is a suitable alternative. I opened this ticket here to track that, and the recommendation was to bring it (rightly so) to the mailing list: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/29887 I'm also a member of the OpenStack community and I've talked to devs who were interested in taking over python-memcached as per the discussion in the linked issue, but it looks like OpenStack's oslo.cache is also switching to pymemcache at this stage because it offers them a great alternative. Any thoughts? 1: https://github.com/linsomniac/python-memcached/issues/95 2: https://github.com/pinterest/pymemcache -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/3ad5467c-8073-7273-ae5b-00f5dd713efa%40catalyst.net.nz. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
