[ixpmanager] some questions re: IXP 5

[Athanasios Douitsis]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 02:19:24PM +0000, Barry O'Donovan wrote:

> 
> 
> Athanasios Douitsis wrote on 31/10/2019 10:57:> Wait, in config/cache.php
> there are 7 possible CACHE_DRIVER values. Are
> > you saying that only 'memcached' is valid?
> 
> What I'm saying is:
> 
> > It may well work for some parts of it but there's actually two caching
> > mechanisms in the backend of IXP Manager: Laravel and Doctrine ORM. The
> > recommended and supported caching mechanism is memcahced which 'just works'
> > for both.
> 
> The sample .env.example file has the two elements set by default as:
> 
> CACHE_DRIVER=array
> DOCTRINE_CACHE=array
> 
> I.e. no cache so it will work out of the box. This is perfectly fine by the
> way - modern servers will serve IXP Manager pages in their sleep without
> caching. In our installation instructions we say that Memcached is optional
> but recommended.
> 
> The automated installation script installs and activates Memcached.
> 
> 
> Again, the Laravel and Doctrine caching mechanisms are different and not
> shared. What backends and how Laravel supports them is different to
> Doctrine.
> 
> You can play around with other ones no problem but our position is that
> array and memcached are the supported and tested caches and we have neither
> used nor recommend any others for the IXP Manager project.
> 
> 
> We try to reduce complexity in IXP Manager in so far as possible and so I
> don't see array or memcached as being the two options changing to be honest.
> 
>  - Barry

Hello Barry,

That's a perfectly good answer :-), we've had array with our production
4.8, we'll just keep using array with 5.2. I erroneously had the
impression that there might be some spectacular benefit from switching
to another driver.

Thank you very much for the clarification!,
Athanasios