From 2bf54498aafc19625bdb78828ec5b91483d7de38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Kloeckner <inform@tiker.net>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 16:52:13 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Point users at pylibmc rather than the Py3-broken
python-memcache
---
local_settings.py.example | 8 +++++++-
requirements.txt | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/local_settings.py.example b/local_settings.py.example
index 00aac329..db1a7d79 100644
--- a/local_settings.py.example
+++ b/local_settings.py.example
@@ -31,9 +31,15 @@ RELATE_BASE_URL = "http://YOUR/RELATE/SITE/DOMAIN"
# properly if you enable this. (or a similar out-of-process cache
# backend)
#
+# You must 'pip install pylibmc' to use this (which in turn may require
+# installing 'libmemcached-dev').
+#
+# Btw, do not be tempted to use 'MemcachedCache'--it's unmaintained and
+# broken in Python 33, as of 2016-08-01.
+#
# CACHES = {
# 'default': {
-# 'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.MemcachedCache',
+# 'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache',
# 'LOCATION': '127.0.0.1:11211',
# }
# }
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c06fef09..97a25d44 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -51,8 +51,8 @@ django-bower
git+https://github.com/lambdalisue/django-codemirror-widget.git
#django-codemirror-widget
-# Optional, used for caching
-python-memcached
+# Optional, used for caching, requires 'libmemcached-dev' (Debian package name)
+# pylibmc
# For code isolation in code questions
docker-py
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