Re: [Haskell-cafe] Sphinx full-text searching client on Hackage

2008-07-14 Thread Don Stewart
chris: > The communication with Sphinx is done using a quite low-level binary > protocol, but Data.Binary saved the day: it made it very easy for us > to parse all the binary things. Especially the use of the Get and Put > monads are a big improvement over the manual reading and keeping track

[Haskell-cafe] Sphinx full-text searching client on Hackage

2008-07-14 Thread Chris Eidhof
Hey everyone, We started working on a client [1] for the sphinx full-text search engine [2], which is a very fast full-text search engine that has either SQL or XML as a backend. While our version is far from done (it only supports the query command, and a limited number of parameters), w