Hi Georg,

Quote: Georg Ringer wrote on Wed, 12 February 2014 10:12
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Hi,


Am 12.02.2014 09:47, schrieb Thomas Skierlo:
> Talking to myself - I've got no answers, except 2 private emails with a
> message similar to "Don't bother with 6.2.0 - you'll lose all of your hair"

maybe the topic has been broad up a bit often by you already? This post
is even a new thread which doesn't help at all. A sentence like "does
not work" is also not helpful. Is the content indexed?


You are right. I opened at least 6 threads related to searching and TYPO3. By 
the way, are you counting threads with answers?

I've opened the first one after my migration from 6.0 to 6.1, when IS failed 
for the first time since 4.2. Filed 3 issues on Forge, 2 with ready-made 
solutions. One of them was opened last week, short after it's birthday, and now 
I was asked to review it - but I can't, since the plugin has vanished after 
beta3.

Anyhow being readonly at your threads I still wonder which setup to you
got because you run into problems I never have seen. Same at forge in
your recently submitted report [1]


Does this translate to "I, Georg, have no issues with IS on current master"? Did you 
never see the problems I'm currently facing, because you use a better solution as IS? Or does it 
mean: "I'm not using IS and therefore IS has no issues"?

Georg. You are aware that THIS thread sublimes in only one simple question? "Can 
anyone confirm IS working on a fresh installation of 6.2 ?" I think, I perfectly 
explained why I asked this question. If only I have this issue, it's probably something 
rotten in my configuration, otherwise it might be a problem of the product OR the core. 
Knowing is the very first step for any cure. And the best place to find out is a product 
related discussion forum. And believe me, it's very hard to debug something that's just 
not there any more. It's 5 a.m. now and I did analyze every single change to IS since 
6.1.6 within the last 20 hours. To make it short, all of them look reasonable, and no 
change would explain why the plugin is not showing up any more. So probably, my recent 
death of IS is core related  like the other issue we discussed yesterday.

Setup - in this case - plays a minor role, since setup is enforced by 
ext_typoscript_setup.txt (which is no good idea at all). So even in case you do nothing 
except placing the plugin you should get a reaction from it, and be it a fatal. So the 
first thing I did after hitting the shit was disabling all my custom setup. Up to 
6.2.0beta3 the next thing I saw always was the table based markup of the most basic 
template IS has to offer. That is expected behavior, including those funny "Search 
Rules". Even switching to the experimental plugin brought some (strange) results  at 
least if you fix some naming problems in the Fluid-Templates (which I also filed to Forge 
about a year ago).

> IS issues on Forge just keep untouched, since
> all people knowing more seem to use 4.5 with Solr. This might work for
> them, but it will kill the whole product in the end.

You sound like indexed_search is the most awesome search experience you
can have! That is certainly not true. There are alternatives which can
hardly be reached by indexed_search. The reason is simply because the
alternative is made for search and uses something really useful.


No, IS is far away from being awesome, but it did it's job for small projects 
since 4.2, and for a very long time it was the only search solution TYPO3 had 
to offer. It's core land - until the time being. Und es ist uneingeschränkte 
Open Source.

I'd wish you guys would be able to take the position of a newcomer to TYPO3. 
Imagine how it feels when nothing works as it should. Chance for deep 
frustration is much bigger today than it was 6 years ago, when there was one 
tutorial per product, and each of them was matching the version.

Yes indexed_search could be improved a lot but in the end, it still
won't be a competitor to solr & co.


I'm perfectly aware of that, but it is no excuse for IS not working.

> It seems that nobody except me is early-adopting 6.2.0 in a
> production-like environment

not true.


Prove it. Test IS on recent master and share the result.

> Without early adopters we will get what we
> deserve. A non working time bomb - with unit tests showing green.

are there any unit tests for indexed search? I doubt.


Try to get the message. It translates to something like "if you change a part of the 
engine, check if it still runs afterwards"

> Getting tired to burn my time any further. For the first time in 6 years
> I checked recent Drupal specs, since I can't afford to use a CMS which
> is incapable of searching.

If any product fits better for your needs, please use it!


Good to know.

However solr is an awesome tool (not only the extension itself but the
product I am talking about) which can be used to fulfill things you will
*never* get with indexed_search.


But we are not talking about the pros and cons of Solr here again, are we?

And yes it is not that hard to set it up, no matter if working on
windows or unix and there are also TYPO3 hosters which did that work
already for you.


I'm not afraid of any setup and don't need no TYPO3 hoster. Currently all I 
need is a bed and a search function. Lucky me to find my bed without one :-)

Cheers,

Thomas


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