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I've been looking for a perl based search tool that uses some kind of |
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indexing to index and render searchable my home library of software |
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manual and the like. Quite a few html pages involved, maybe 15-16,000. |
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Webglimpse is something I've worked with before and know a bit about |
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but thought I might like to see what else is available. |
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Googling lead to a tool called Sphinx that apparently is coupled with |
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a data base tool like mysql. It is advertised as the kind of search |
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tool I'm after and has a perl front-end also available in portage |
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(dev-perl/Sphinx-Search). |
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The trouble is I haven't been able to figure out the first thing about |
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using it. The overview, and Introduction, like a lot of such |
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documents fails to give a really basic idea of what the tool does. |
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The call it a `full text search engine', but never really say what |
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that means. |
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There are 12-15 FEATURES listed, and none appear to describe sensibly |
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what they really do. |
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The faq is a string a questions about using sql.. really. |
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So far I haven't found a good statement of what the darn thing really |
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does or how to aim it at data. |
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The manual is probably great if you already know a lot about using |
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sphinx but very thin for my case. |
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I've not even been able to get a rough idea of how to aim the darn |
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thing at the desired (Local lan) web site. |
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Or, to show how thin it really is or how dumb I really am, I've been |
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unable to tell if it can even do what I want to do. |
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I've posted on a sphinx list on gmane... but it appears to be only |
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moderately active and haven't gotten any replies... |
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I hoped some one here may be familiar with sphinx and willing to coach |
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me a bit or at least let me know if it can even do what I want to do. |
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Also any other perl based search tools involving indexing and some |
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kind of versatile search query capability.. like regular expressions |
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I'd be interested to know about. |