I was somewhat put off by the line at the top of the INSTALL file: "install wxPython - http://wxpython.org/" (python is nice because I can generally avoid library-hell), bit I soon noticed the Curses and textmode clients (why aren't they mentioned?)
Otherwise, it seems excellent.
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