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

[Brad Fitzpatrick]

Hrm, I don't remember excluding it on purpose.

I'm actually somewhat impressed I was able to accidentally exclude it,
given how intertwined all the changes were.

Got a patch?


On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Steven Grimm wrote:

> I notice that this release doesn't have our powers-of-N allocation
> change -- was there something wrong with it such that it wasn't
> appropriate to include in the release? It gives us substantially more
> efficient memory usage and doesn't really have a downside that I'm aware
> of (but maybe there's one I'm not aware of?)
>
> -Steve
>
>
> Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
> > 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
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
>
>