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bbPress is turning into a WP plugin sometime in the future, probably using the custom post types feature in WP 3.0.

There is some merit in bbPress within BP. It just needs a little love.

[EDIT]

Didn’t know this was an idea thread. I don’t think this is going to change any time soon.

You could try Simple:Press or one of the other WP forum plugins out there.

Scott Kingsley Clark has a port of bbPress working on his WP Pods CMS framework, which could be a good future alternative:

http://www.scottkclark.com/forums/beta-testers-unite/current-status-of-the-forums-package/