Whilst I'm sure that there are various work-arounds my lament is that the Apache Perl community can't come up with a package/bundle which has been tested on, say WinXP and RH Linux, and which comes with Apache,mod_perl,Mason and TT2 without the nonesense of hunting down mod_perl and libpreq separately with all the potential version headaches. It would then be trivial for new students to get some work done as is the case with PHP. Perl would then have a chance of gaining back some of the mindshare.

Who knows, we might even see a few more authors writing about Perl web development.