[DCPM] Perl Bulletin Boards - Recommendations?

[Aaron Trevena]

On 19/06/06, Simon Waters <simon at technocool.net> wrote:
> 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).

Annoyingly - this is an area in which perl lacks some good solutions -
mind you I wouldn't call phpBB, etc "good".

* NMS (not MSA) wwwboard is very simple, decent code, but ugly as hell
* psunami hasn't been updated since 2003 and I don't see any demo's or
screenshots for it
* mwforum seems to look nice, and works ok, but the code wasn't very
nice (but then it can't be worse than the php BBS code) when I looked
at it 5 years ago. I attempted to port it to TT to make it more
useful, but never finished. Hopefully the code has improved since then
and it might be easier to customise or move to TT.

Cheers,

A.