Sub Articulo 61.0

I have just completed an alpha version of two Perl modules,
TeX::Kpathsea and TeX::Kpsewhich.  TeX::Kpathsea provides a Perl
interface to much of the Kpathsea library, and TeX::Kpsewhich
essentially implements the kpsewhich program as a Perl module, in
addition to providing an object-oriented variant of the same.
My intention is to write Perl versions of the mktex* scripts over the
next week or so using these libraries; these should be much faster
than the shell-script variants, and allow for the possibility of
better security, for example, having non-world-writeable font
directories which can be written to by a (secure) setuid Perl mktex...
program.
I *do not* intend for these Perl scripts to replace the shell
versions; it has already been ascertained that not everybody can be
assumed to have Perl.
Comments are of course welcome on the code and possibility of
improvements.
The code can be fetched from http://www.debian.org/~jdg, and is
released under the GPL.