Flask-Skeleton Contains MemCache as a dependency.

[duaneking]

I love the idea of this but I balked as soon as I saw the giant list of third party services and dependencies that it needed to be set up for a so called "minimal skeleton".

In my mind if the goal is a small, minimal skeleton there should only have to be a web-server,. a database server,, and your done. Please read the rest before you get angry.

I get the value that caching in memcache provides, and I think caching in a lot of cases makes a lot of sense, but since such a cache is not always part of your app (IT can also be part of infrastructure or replaced with other services) , it really it shouldn't be a requirement to use memcache as other technologies exist and not all projects/deployments/clouds are compatible with it, and so that violates the fundamental ideal that this is a minimal skeleton if memcache is a hard dependency.

Thus in my mind for something like this, the need to depend on memcache should be more of an add/on/option and not a hard dependency.