Comment 17 for bug 1006414

As to the use of SASL for memcached: I'm not sure we want to implement that ourselves in our small memcache client : handling sasl, and moving to the binary protocal for memcache would have to be dealt with (not sure how easy it is to do sasl in python). We could instead use pylibmc (http://sendapatch.se/projects/pylibmc/) which wraps libmemcached and provides sasl support if the library was built with sasl.

What would be the preferred way here?