Not much to say about it: It's a useless eclass anyway.
Now it has EAPI=2 support too.

The new eclass and
a diff of the relevant parts of current perl-module.eclass and perl-apps.eclass
are attached.

I want to commit it soon too.

Thanks
# Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/eclass/perl-app.eclass,v 1.10 2006/12/09 14:34:01 mcummings Exp $

# Author: Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org>
# Maintained by the Perl herd <perl@gentoo.org>

inherit perl-module

case "${EAPI:-0}" in
0|1) EXPORT_FUNCTIONS src_compile ;;
2) EXPORT_FUNCTIONS src_configure src_compile ;;
esac

perl-app_src_prep() {
perl-app_src_configure
}

perl-app_src_configure() {
perl-module_src_configure
}

perl-app_src_compile() {
has "${EAPI:-0}" 0 1 && perl-app_src_prep
perl-module_src_compile
}
--- perl-module.eclass.orig_minimal 2009-03-05 15:39:47.000000000 +0100
+++ perl-app.eclass.orig_minimal 2009-03-05 15:40:13.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,9 +1,13 @@
-inherit base
+# The perl-app eclass is designed to allow easier installation of perl
+# apps, ineheriting the full structure of the perl-module eclass but allowing
+# man3 pages to be built. This is to work around a collision-protect bug in the
+# default perl-module eclass

-EXPORT_FUNCTIONS pkg_setup pkg_preinst pkg_postinst pkg_prerm pkg_postrm src_compile src_install src_test src_unpack
+inherit perl-module

-perl-module_src_prep() {
+EXPORT_FUNCTIONS src_compile

+perl-app_src_prep() {
perlinfo

export PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1
@@ -12,10 +16,10 @@


SRC_PREP="yes"
- find ${S} -type d -name ".svn" -exec /bin/rm -rf {} ; 2>/dev/null
+ pwd
if [ "${PREFER_BUILDPL}" == "yes" ] && ( [ -f Build.PL ] || [ ${PN} == "module-build" ] ); then
einfo "Using Module::Build"
- echo "$pm_echovar" | perl Build.PL ${myconf} --installdirs=vendor --destdir=${D} --libdoc= || die "Unable to build! (are you using USE="build"?)"
+ echo "$pm_echovar" | perl Build.PL --installdirs=vendor --destdir=${D} --libdoc= || die "Unable to build! (are you using USE="build"?)"
elif [ -f Makefile.PL ] && [ ! ${PN} == "module-build" ]; then
einfo "Using ExtUtils::MakeMaker"
echo "$pm_echovar" | perl Makefile.PL ${myconf} INSTALLMAN3DIR='none'
@@ -27,10 +31,10 @@
fi
}

-perl-module_src_compile() {
+perl-app_src_compile() {

perlinfo
- [ "${SRC_PREP}" != "yes" ] && perl-module_src_prep
+ [ "${SRC_PREP}" != "yes" ] && perl-app_src_prep
if [ -f Makefile ]; then
make ${mymake} || die "compilation failed"
elif [ -f Build ]; then