[Labs-l] Removing memcache from tools

[Petr Bena]

I don't really care, I don't use memcache myself. But this just seems
to me like unnecessary step

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I see some of your points, but this seems to me like "make life of
>> sysadmin easier" vs "make life of programmer (tool maintainer) far
>> harder"
>
> Legoktm was able to port his tool from memcached to redis in a very,
> very short period of time. This is less than 15 mins of work, and will
> be dwarfed by work required to fix other things that break when you
> move from toolserver to toollabs.
>
> Toolserver also never had memcached (or so Krinkle tells me), so 'will
> be harder to port toolserver tools' is also not too valid reason.
>
> And if they really, *really* want to be that lazy, I can happily help
> them port. But I think most cases will just be of people adding
> caching support for their tools from scratch, so I'd rather have them
> use redis (with a prefix, as documented!) than memcached.
>
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