But if it's not happenning (I personally have seen far from the declaration of distaste that Simon mentioned) and there is not much support then that's fine; we can all just keep rewriting routines that accomplish essentially the same thing, and keep our libraries of generic code to ourselves.
Hah, maybe I spoke prematurely. Looking over the responses, I'm still not sure what to do. I'm willing to do some legwork to get things started, if enough people are interested.
-Sw.