Mybb2.0 and yii

[techu]

No doubt that using a ready to use framework reduces development time etc. It also provide all the necessary libraries for the software and then some. Mybb aims to be a lite weight forum software and the a ready to use framework like yii got lots of unnecessary stuff that mybb is ever going to use. Moreover if the framework developer drops the project then it will be hard to maintain and update the software. If the framework developers decides to rewrite the whole thing then the software based on the framework needs to be rewritten. if using a ready to use framework the application developer have less control over the codes.
IMHO no project should use too much of 3rd party stuff unless and until it is really necessary. I don't think developing their own framework is a very big job and they should use their own framework.