active development and pecl memcache dependency

  • Hi,

    TL/DR:
    I wonder whether I should dare to use this plugin and its old pecl dependency on a new WP site with php 8.2. It seems a bit unclear whether they are actually maintained actively. So should I use it on a potentially high-traffic-site?

    Background info: coming from Drupal, we used memcache there for years and loved it’s simplicity and robustness. No problems whatsoever over many years of hightraffic usage and over many php versions.

    So for a new WP site, before going to redis I thought why not trying memcache first and the natural thing to do was to look at the automattic repo for an “official” plugin, sort of …

    From the pecl memcache changelog (2020 !!)

    2020-12:
- Version 8.x support PHP 8.x
- Version 4.x supports PHP 7.0-7.4.
- Version 4.x is considered to be stable for production usage.

    Doesn’t sound very promising for a 8.2 site in 2023, does it? Does not feel good to enable such an old extension. On our dev environment, it works ( for now ), but is it really futureproof?

    Regards, Ulrich

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