Who's in the mood for a new memcached release?

Brad Fitzpatrick brad at danga.com
Fri Aug 18 06:06:37 UTC 2006


There was a "bget" command (binary get) in trunk
that had to be removed.  It's still in the 1.2.0-rc1, kinda, in that you
can do "bget" which sets the binary flag, but the getter code doesn't do
it now.

We were doing that so C clients could be more efficient (and easier/safer
to write).

- Brad


On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Steven Grimm wrote:

> What did you have to leave out due to conflicts?
>
> -Steve
>
>
> Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
> > This is a merge of facebook's changes into the main version, with some
> > of the new features that were conflicting removed, others partially
> > still there, etc, etc.
> >
> > WARNING:  we're not using it in production.  I can't vouch for its
> > quality.  Facebook can vouch for the version they used, but maybe I messed
> > it up merging it in.  HERE BE DRAGONS.  Be scared.
> >
> > That said,
> >
> > http://www.danga.com/memcached/dist/experimental/memcached-1.2.0-rc1.tar.gz
> >
> > Notice the /experimental/ in the URL?  PACKAGERS:  Don't package this yet.
> > It's a dev release.
> >
> > Everybody else:  bang on it.
> >
> > Let's find any issues and get a release out.  It's been too long, and I
> > want to finish vbuckets, but want a stable tree to hack on.
> >
> > Also wanted:  benchmarks between this and last stable release.
> >
> > Feedback requested....
> >
> > - Brad
> >
> >
> >
>
>


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