Support for PHP Memcached lib

[jfse]

Currently you can access memcache through this library http://php.net/manual/en/book.memcache.php
But we were already using the memcached lib on our servers http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.memcached.php

Would you consider adding support for this?
Creating a classCacheMemcached is not much work (you can have ours if you want) and aside from that you would probably just need another setting in conf_global (something like "memcache_lib")

[Mellisa]

whats the diff?

[jfse]

The later lib (the one called memcached) supports more of the memcache functions

[bfarber]

We have very basic memcache support in IP.Board as it stands. What would the benefit be to using the other lib exactly? If we don't utilize any of those other methods, what do you we gain by using the other library over the one we are using now?

[jfse]

Simply wider support for already established environments, I doubt most people fancy the idea of having 2 different memcache libraries installed (though I suppose this is possible).
Basically we simple want to minimize the amount of modding we have to do with every release :)
But it might also help others out, you probably know this better then us.

I cant tell if you there is other advantages to using the newer library that would be beneficial.

Though, some of the features could probably be useful if you should choose to increase the use of performance enhancing stuff (if they are enabled on the current system)