[CentOS] cpan2rpm and alternatives

cpan2rpm is getting relatively old, compared to some of the newer things that can be done with the CPAN and RPM build procedures. The latest version isn't available on its sourceforge site and the

What are the newer procedures? I'll be needing to do this in the very near future.

I was contemplating writing some sort of yum plugin or external utility that can leverage whatever current procedures exist and register a CPAN install in the RPM database... but I'm not sure it is worth the effort and I do realize that breaks the whole Centos testing and reliability model. Still, there are some functions cannot be found in the usual places that do exist in CPAN.

-geoff