I am cross-posting this for the benefit of anyone out there who doesn't participate in the relevant mailing lists. There is a petition up at dev.perl.org asking for Apple to release their rumored Perl->Cocoa module to the general public. In a nutshell, "Cocoa" is the API for Mac OS X. With a Perl->Cocoa bridge you'd be able to access native system calls to the operating system, which is pretty cool, but more to the point you'd be able to access system calls to the Aqua widgets themselves. Imagine your Perl programs running with incredible sexiness of Aqua.... wow that'd be cool.
Anyway, you may not care, but if you love Perl, and you love OS X, have a look see and see if it's something you'd be interested in supporting. Thanks!
http://dev.perl.org/macosx/
Gary Blackburn
Trained Killer