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A CMS is a Content Management System; it's a system that allows you to manage content

A Portal... it's more gray... more along the way the old Yahoo was, some kind of page collection to access other resources.

That's the theory. In real life, a CMS is supposed to be more flexible, allowing you to create the website you want and need; while a portal is less flexible, you can enter the content you want but the content type and page layout are locked.

Textpattern would be a good example of a CMS, while Nuke is probably a good (as in: bad) example of a portal.

Personally, I can't imagine why this would be useful. It takes UI space, and can be done by hand easily... and it's not done that often.

But I've had various clients asking for it from time to time, so...

Yes! I can't believe I forgot that one...

Well, anything can be modded. Heck, one can even rewrite the full PunBB's code... but if you want to use it, well a lot of people don't have the time and/or the skill to do it well (meaning neat, secure, and then to update to new PunBB version by hand since after some serious rewrite, even the patch util can get lost).

I mean: faster (reallly faster), consuming less server resources, consuming much less database size, with built in ranking system; and more important than everything without the English-centric bug on apostrophe.

I do too, but I'm more and more annoyed by people not having it, and having serious charset issue because of that. Global utf-8 is going to be much quieter.

Well, I like having people writing and full proof testing something for me. Maybe a 1.2 mod add atom feature, but is the mod author going to patch my installed forums to keep them up to date?

Granularity is not a major thing by far, but when one needs it, it's quite nice.

I have use for it, and even if vanilla PunBB is already incredibly well indexed by search bots (and better than any other forum software out there), it will be a nice addition.

And yup of course, it uses Apache's rewrite.

Extension is really the major one... anything someone wants, in time, in may be able to get it without screwing the core code. Since some mod are really, really ugly, and since security (read: updates) is a major concern to most forums, it's a key feature for a lot of people in my opinion.

Much simpler to install, uninstall, track, edit, at the very very least.

And of course, no more arguing about ?this new incredible feature we all absolutely must have in PunBB? (such as private messaging, aka the worst idea ever).

That's good for you, it means PunBB 1.2 is already perfect

There are several ways of doing that, the most common being the php loader (some people are allergic to FTP). But I don't remember any forum using this, or any other way that Pun doesn't.

You mean 2006, don't you?

Noted.

Do you have a hat?

Yerk... another several years of latin1, that's ugly...

And 1.2 works (some little quirks here and there, nothing serious or data integrity shattering) with utf-8; every PunBB I set-up is configured that way.

What kind of testing do you do for this?

I wander what a wget, or googlebot for example, would answer. I think it would be best to give a well formed, valid, xhtml as much as possible; and have a workaround for the few known UA that don't like the object tag.