Hi, I have pushed SphinxSE into MariaDB 5.2. It should be available in the upcoming MariaDB 5.2.2, which is currently planned within a few weeks. For now, only the code for the storage engine is pushed, not for the mysql-test-run.pl stuff. Sergei Golubchik wanted to modify mysql-test-run.pl first so that engine-specific code can be added in a more modular fashion (he will do it when he returns from vacation). For now, the engine is by default built as a loadable .so plugin. This is the general policy for MariaDB for new plugins. I think the idea is that engines that prove to be stable and well supported by their maintainer can get promoted to build statically by default (we are still flexing out the new policy). Note that the engine will still be available by default, the user will just need to do a one-time INSTALL PLUGIN command. Note also that SphinxSE can still be built statically with ./configure --with-plugin-sphinx, only the default is dynamic. Daniel, you should probably look into documenting the SphinxSE for MariaDB 5.2.2. Andrew kindly gave us permission to use what we need from the Sphinx documentation: http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/current.html#sphinxse Andrew suggested including also a link to the Sphinx webpage in the MariaDB documentation for SphinxSE, which is of course a very good idea. Also you should document how to do the INSTALL PLUGIN command (it's similar to for OQGraph). Note that the sphinx plugin will be included in eg. deb packages and so on and installed by default, just the INSTALL PLUGIN command is needed to enable it. Andrew, thanks for all your work with this! It is very good to have SphinxSE included, there have been several requests for this. We (mainly Sergei) made some changes to the code during review. I attach a patch for all the changes since your original import, in case you are interested. Note that I re-added the code when I merged to 5.2 to get a clean history, so future work on SphinxSE in MariaDB should be based on lp:maria/5.2, not our old sphinx bzr trees. - Kristian.