Is anyone using the SphinxSE search engine integration with MariaDB? I help support a rather old MySQL-based site that uses Sphinx and there's some scrappy PHP

Is anyone using the SphinxSE search engine integration with MariaDB? I help support a rather old MySQL-based site that uses Sphinx and there's some scrappy PHP code glueing it all together, and this: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/about-sphinxse http://kb.askmonty.org/en/about-sphinxse seems like a great setup, but it would be rough to re-factor this old app.. but we'll probably do it...