James,
This is great feedback, and I agree with all of it. The only problem is that there is little active interest in Cells, other than my own use of it, so I am not worrying much these days about making the Cells project approachable to others.
What I did with Cells-gtk was get a heavy user or two authorized as project admins so they could do things like fixing asdf-install.
I suggest you poke around and see if you want to use Cells for anything, and if so we can sort out the mess in CVS. I want to look at moving Cello out of the Cells project and back to the Cello project on c-l.net, and get cells out from under cells-culture back to being a top-level module of the Cells project.
Of course Cells-gtk would then have to be told the new home of Cells (and utils-kt and hello-c), so it could be a messy week. Which is why I will hold off until folks such as yourself pester me for, oh, two weeks straight. :)
Thanks again for the input.
kenny