So, the first ByteHoard/e alpha is out, and is the result of quite a bit of hard graft. There are still some compatability issues, as there are with all scripts this complex, but I think it's a good first try.
Nearly all the 'good' features are missing; search, registration, cross-user access, translation (although this is more a case of writing the script to generate the .pot files), and so on. However, I'll be working on these next.
For those of you who actually read these blog entries, I'd love to hear any feedback about BH/e you have. Too complicated? Too simple? Not compatible enough? A step in the right direction? It's nice to hear responses, since you people probably have a better idea of what you want than I do.
As I said above, translations will start shortly. This time round I'm using GNU gettext format, so I have to bodge together a script that will do both the PHP and the JavaScript collections simultaneously, and then split them up again.
Well, onwards and forwards.