I spent most of today trawling CPAN looking for a curses or slang UI library for perl that doesn't suck. Newt is ok (though the documentation is incomplete), but the perl interface is braindead and has really rotten docs. And anyway newt isn't complete enough for my purposes. Perlvision is cute, until you see what the calling convention for dialogs looks like (1 function. Dozens of non-named parameters to keep straight). It's also not flexable enough. Nothing else seemed worthwhile at all.

So now I'm faced with writing my own widget set. Joy. At least Term::Slang is alright.

We released boot-floppies 2.2.8 today, although I had rather little to do with it besides building the final release.