[DCPM] Perl Bulletin Boards - Recommendations?

[Simon Waters]

Looking for a forum tool for a chess website.

There are a lot of general purpose BBs out there, and I'm familiar with
some of the PHP ones (PunBB, phpBB2, and relatives), and one Perl board
(YaBB).

YaBB is pretty good, but it has some weird licence (not a serious
problem - insists on a copyright notice), but if anyone knows a better
Perl discussion forum, or as good as with a DFSG compatible licence.

I figure Perl is probably better, as if I ever get to code anything CPAN
already has most things a chess programmer could ever want (short of
Perl chess engines, although someone has written one now).

Mostly we want just a simple discussion forum. We don't need any massive
features, just user sign-up with email confirmation, some sort of
anti-bot features to prevent abuse (although obscurity may do that well
enough). Good generated mark-up (the site validates or we fix it!) and
no major accessibility issues.

Ideally the ability to chuck arbitrary Javascript and extra handling
into the message to do some "chess magic" for moves and diagrams, this
can be done with pretty much any tool, but one that doesn't make it any
harder than it already is would be good ;)

So basically, beyond not being open to abuse, and good mark-up and
accessibility, the less features the better probably.

Will run on Debian Sarge, Postgres DB already available, I'd prefer not
to add MySQL to the already heady mixture but if needs must.