It's never too late! Just ... depends on who'd do it :) The gearman protocol's pretty terse compared to the memcached one...
So, out of my hands at least. On Sat, 8 Nov 2008, Aaron Stone wrote: > > Is it too late to pick a middle course: using memcached binary > protocol with commands for queues, but implemented as an independent > project? > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:02 PM, dormando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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. > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >