Hello ports@, I wanted to evaluate sphinx in a project and couldn't find an OpenBSD port...so I whipped one up.
You can find the new textproc/sphinx port here: http://myutil.com/ports/4.2/sphinx.tgz
So sphinx looks to rapidly becoming the favorite text search engine for Ruby-on-Rails. I have even heard it referred to as the "nginx" of search engines. Sphinx is Andrew Aksyonoff's project and more info can be found on the project's page: http://www.sphinxsearch.com/ Why did I use 0.9.8-svn-r1112 (a "beta" release)? Because as the author states: "This version is generally recommended over older releases such as 0.9.7" NOTE: I have not tested the postgresql flavor aside from building it. I did do a bit of testing on the MySQL flavor though (indexed 14 million US Businesses and did numerous searches). Here is the DESCR (ripped from freebsd): Sphinx is a full-text search engine, distributed under GPL version 2. Commercial license is also available for embedded use. Generally, it's a standalone search engine, meant to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions to other applications. Sphinx was specially designed to integrate well with SQL databases and scripting languages. Currently built-in data sources support fetching data either via direct connection to MySQL, or from an XML pipe. As for the name, Sphinx is an acronym which is officially decoded as SQL Phrase Index. Thanks, -- http://myutil.com/
