You can get most of the function of Verity with a open source package
called Glimpse -- I think the latest version is available at:
http://webglimpse.org/
It is Perl-based only (AFAIK), but that's no problem as Mac OS X
includes Perl with every installation
I used glimpse quite a bit in the 1997 time frame, when I was
programming Perl sites
Pretty good package, fast, complete - no stemming, though
Anyway, there are other excellent packages such as imageMagik, that
probably could be interfaced through Perl.
Finally, Verity is something of a straw man --I would be surprised if
anyone wanting to host CFMX on a Mac would be deterred by the absence of
Verity.
Personally, for dynamic sites, i prefer to do text search against the
content in the db, It performs sufficiently well, and involves a lot
less hassle than maintaining Verity collections (MO)
Dick
On Wednesday, July 31, 2002, at 10:35 AM, Ian Lurie wrote:
> I'd cheeerfully find a substitute for Verity - all I'd really need is
> support for the rest of the product on the platform.
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