Or: burgled-batteries isn't dead or forgotten, I've just been
busy.  One of the downsides of liberally relying on CFFI
internals is that changes to those internals can easily result
in breakage, and some of the cffi-libffi changes did so. It took
me entirely too long to get around to it, but I've finally
updated burgled-batteries so it will actually run against CFFI
in Quicklisp. Actually moving to the new style of (:struct *)
and (:pointer (:struct *)) identifiers remains to be done, so
there are a fair number of style warnings to ignore, but at
least it will run.  I've also moved burgled-batteries to git.
The official repo URL has not changed (it remains
http://repo.kepibu.org/burgled-batteries), however there is also
a github mirror, which may be moderately more useful if you'd
like to browse the source or changes without cloning the repo,
as it will undoubtedly be a while before I've got time to set up
gitweb on my own host and get it functioning seamlessly in
parallel with darcsweb.  Conveniently timed t