Re: [htdig-dev] 3.2.0b5 Testing

[Joe R. J. <jj...@cl...>]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Gilles Detillieux wrote:

> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 15:56:36 -0600 (CST)
> From: Gilles Detillieux <gr...@sc...>
> To: Joe R. Jah <jj...@cl...>
> Cc: htd...@li...
> Subject: Re: [htdig-dev] 3.2.0b5 Testing
> 
> According to Joe R. Jah:
> > htfuzzy metaphone dumps core, but it works fine with endings, etc.
> 
> Just a hunch, but I'd guess that you had a metaphone database left over
> from 3.1.6, and that the newer DB code in 3.2.0b5 doesn't like it.  We
> had put some tests for this in some of the other programs, but maybe not
> this one.  Try deleting the databases and running htfuzzy metaphone again.
> The same would probably go for soundex and accents databases, if you use
> either of those.

Spot on!  I had an older db.metaphone.db left over; none of the other
supported algorithms had any problem:
        soundex
        accents
        endings
        synonyms

Regards,

Joe
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