Is there still no way to get transaction details for non-wallet transactions via ppcoind?

I am at a crossroads similar to crazydownloaded's situation a year ago.  I would very much like to include peercoin in multiple ongoing projects but I'm having trouble getting transactional data from the daemon.

There is no getrawtransaction call and gettransaction only returns information for in-wallet transactions, even with txindex=1 in .conf and the index properly built.

Is anyone maintaining the peercoin code and if so, is a pull of the getrawtransaction code on the roadmap?

Also, how might current peercoin block explorers be parsing general transaction data?