It's always been a binary-ish protocol. Brian and a few others are writing a C implementation the client/server.
Initially I was weakly expecting to add gearman's commands to the binary protocol and having it exist as a storage engine for memcached, but I concede to brian's intent to keep it a separate project :) -Dormando On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Aaron Stone wrote: > > I didn't realize that gearman is a binary protocol -- are you just now > defining one? > > Aaron > > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Brian Aker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > Just something else to throw into the equation: > > http://gearmanproject.org/doku.php?id=protocol > > > > This is the protocol as outlined by Gearman. A few of us are reworking it at > > the moment, but keeping backwards compatibility with the current version. > > > > Cheers, > > -Brian > > > > On Nov 8, 2008, at 12:38 PM, Aaron Stone wrote: > > > >> > >> Heh, nice blog post :-) > >> > >> I agree that the queues that are out there and using hacked up > >> memcache protocols are doing us a great disservice -- I think if we > >> build a smart way to do a message queue into a binary protocol > >> extension, we can drive minds in the right direction, and provide > >> ourselves with something useful in the process. > >> > >> Also, it would help us to slow down the rate of splinter projects. > >> Pluggable storage engines and message queues are I think the only > >> areas where the memcached-alikes play. > >> > >> Aaron > >> > >> > >> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Dustin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> On Nov 6, 12:48 pm, "Aaron Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Have a mailing list link? It'd be good to continue with where you left > >>>> off / review what you were thinking at the time. > >>> > >>> I wrote about it on my embarrassingly tongue-in-cheek titled blog: > >>> > >>> > >>> http://www.rockstarprogrammer.org/post/2008/oct/04/what-matters-asynchronous-job-queue/ > > > > -- > > _______________________________________________________ > > Brian "Krow" Aker, brian at tangent.org > > Seattle, Washington > > http://krow.net/ <-- Me > > http://tangent.org/ <-- Software > > _______________________________________________________ > > You can't grep a dead tree. > > > > > > > > >
