#36153: Remove or replace unmantained pylibmc package from Django dependencies
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Reporter: Paolo Melchiorre | Owner: (none)
Type: Bug | Status: new
Component: Core (Cache system) | Version: dev
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: memcached, pylibmc, | Triage Stage:
package | Someday/Maybe
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by Paolo Melchiorre):
Replying to [comment:1 Sarah Boyce]:
> * I can see in 19c4052f98e5dc4fe9d7edd7125df6a66efbd79f as part of
adding Python 3.12 support, we install `libmemcached-dev`. This doesn't
appear to be documented and we possibly need to document this.
Yes, that's the same advice I gave to Daniele Varrazzo in the psycopg
issue: https://github.com/psycopg/psycopg/issues/999
> * I think the decision to remove `pylibmc` is a decision to deprecate
`PyLibMCCache`, this is still used
[https://github.com/search?q=%22django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache%22+language%3APython&type=code
quite a bit] from what I can tell. I can't imagine that would be a popular
decision
I can image it, but the project seem abandoned and we remove dependencies
in the past after a period of deprecation.
> Generally, I think this needs quite a lot of input before a decision can
be made (and probably a Django forum discussion).
Ok, I can open a thread in the forum if you think it will help having more
feedback on it.
> Django 6.0 is due to be released until December so there's quite some
time for a release to `pylibmc` to be issued. Will mark as `Someday/Maybe`
to revisit closer to that date.
I'm a bit pessimistic on that point because Daniele itself opened an issue
to request a new pylibmc release compatible with Python 3.12 long time
ago without any answer:
https://github.com/lericson/pylibmc/issues/288
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