In a nutshell, I have a collection of web applications that are either vanilla cgi or mod_perl. Ideally, I would like to move towards a pure mod_perl implementation but that's simply not practical.
I've handled this in the past by setting up the core modules and then deriving (or wrapping) into ::Apache and ::Cgi modules. I'd like to get rid of that namespace distinction and use just the core modules (with the crusty bits hidden behind $ENV{MOD_PERL} checks).
Doing a search for some examples of this approach is a bit dodgy -- if anyone can provide links to cgi and mod_perl living together, I would appreciate it.