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diff --git a/docs/topics/cache.txt b/docs/topics/cache.txt index 025e910212..2ba660e171 100644 --- a/docs/topics/cache.txt +++ b/docs/topics/cache.txt @@ -67,22 +67,15 @@ fast interface for adding, retrieving and deleting arbitrary data in the cache. All data is stored directly in memory, so there's no overhead of database or filesystem usage. -After installing Memcached itself, you'll need to install the Memcached Python -bindings, which are not bundled with Django directly. Two versions of this are -available. Choose and install *one* of the following modules: +After installing Memcached itself, you'll need to install +``python-memcached``, which provides Python bindings to Memcached. +This is available at ftp://ftp.tummy.com/pub/python-memcached/ - * The fastest available option is a module called ``cmemcache``, available - at http://gijsbert.org/cmemcache/ . - - * If you can't install ``cmemcache``, you can install ``python-memcached``, - available at ftp://ftp.tummy.com/pub/python-memcached/ . If that URL is - no longer valid, just go to the Memcached Web site - (http://www.danga.com/memcached/) and get the Python bindings from the - "Client APIs" section. - -.. versionadded:: 1.0 - The ``cmemcache`` option is new in 1.0. Previously, only - ``python-memcached`` was supported. +.. versionchanged:: 1.2 + In Django 1.0 and 1.1, you could also use ``cmemcache`` as a binding. + However, support for this library was deprecated in 1.2 due to + a lack of maintenence on the ``cmemcache`` library itself. Support for + ``cmemcache`` will be removed completely in Django 1.4. To use Memcached with Django, set ``CACHE_BACKEND`` to ``memcached://ip:port/``, where ``ip`` is the IP address of the Memcached |