[development] file caching abandoned?

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

See this http://drupal.org/project/memcache

Talk to Robert about it before you duplicate it.

On 3/6/07, Steve Rude <steve at achieveinternet.com> wrote:
>
> I have done much testing with memory based object caching using memcached
> and I think it would be nice if there was the ability to choose what type of
> caching you wanted (memory/file/db) and have the cache.inc functionality
> basically an abstraction layer that the storage mechanism can be taken care
> of by other include files ( e.g. cache-memcache.inc cache-file.inc.  The
> same way that the database abstraction works.
>
> I would be willing to begin some work on this if anyone is interested.  We
> are building a Drupal site now that will need to scale to >30m page views
> per month and I would like to work within an accepted method to help grow
> and scale Drupal.
>
> If anyone has any prior work or projects that can be looked at to help get
> this going down the correct path, please point me in the right direction.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve Rude
>
> On 3/6/07, Karoly Negyesi <karoly at negyesi.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I might be mistaken but I thought file caching was something much sought
> > after. I found posts relating to it as early as 2002.
> >
> > And yet, when the possibility has arisen for it to happen cleanly
> > (pluggable cache.inc), the code for it has been dumped into CVS on
> > August
> > 26, 2006 and not a single cvs commit since then.
> >
> > It's not used much according to the issues but that probably has
> > something
> > to do with not having a single release.
> >
> > Is the community truly interested? If yes, then please a maintainer step
> > up.
> >
> > And yes, I have contacted the current maintainers three months ago to no
> > avail.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > NK
> >
>
>
>
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