Bug#456227: ITP: sphinx -- Free SQL full-text search engine

[Marco Rodrigues <gothicx@sapo.pt>]

Package: wnpp
Owner: "Marco Rodrigues <gothicx@sapo.pt>"
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : sphinx
  Version         : 0.9.7
  Upstream Author : Andrew Aksyonoff <shodan@shodan.ru>
* URL             : http://www.sphinxsearch.com
* License         : GPL-2
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description     : Free SQL full-text search engine

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 PostgreSQL, or using XML pipe mechanism (a pipe to
indexer in special XML-based format which Sphinx recognizes).

As for the name, Sphinx is an acronym which is officially decoded as SQL Phrase
Index. Yes, I know about CMU's Sphinx project.

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Marco Rodrigues

http://Marco.Tondela.org