On 29.03.2011 18:15, Daniel Friesen wrote: > SphinxSearch also has a number of other disadvantages: > - The 'did you mean' is only a spellcheck, it's not index based and not > sensitive to your wiki's actual content so suggestions can be quite bad > in some cases. They were so bad for me the feature was useless. > - The interface for SphinxSearch seams to be out of date > - The index cannot be updated live on-save, so there is delay between > changing content and it getting into the index > - Sphinx queries the sql directly so it's incompatible with compressed > revs, external storage, and essentially any attempt at making storage of > page text efficient in any way at all > > New version of Sphinx can update index on the fly, however I am not sure it's compatible with the extension. Another points are probably true, however compressed revs and external storage is probably not required for not so huge wikis it's being targeted for. Dmitriy
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