Purge tool as a portability nightmare

Hi all,
  The purge tool seems to be showing its age; among other things, it
is a mess to have it build on Windows, and even doing so would be
kludgy.
What are your opinions about refreshing/rewriting it? If so, which of
its features would it be worth to maintain, and which to abandon?
for instance, I'm not sure it'd be worth to keep squid.conf file
parsing, parallel scanning, talking to squid.

It could remain as an ufs cache dump/clear tool, with cache_dir(s)
passed as command line arguments.

Opinions?

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    /kinkie