"Perl needs The Solution" reminds me of an interesting Ruby project called "Instant Rails" which runs their main site on old reliable UseMod Wiki. Both UseMod and this Rails project seem to share similar virtues such as simplicity, power and reliability (at least in the case of UseMod, for the most part). Could this project possibly manifest itself in Perl?

"Instant mod_perl is a one-stop mod_perl runtime solution containing Perl, mod_perl, Apache, and MySQL, all pre-configured and ready to run. No installer, you simply drop it into the directory of your choice and run it. It does not modify your system environment."