If you wandered by here and are concerned by the lack of activity, fret not! CAPE, unlike 95% of the stuff around here, lives and has working code. I need some people to put the new ./configure && make style of builds to the test to ensure I didn't do anything platform specific. It is missing some of the nifty install features so I'll be adding that to the configure.in and Makefile.in over the next few months.
Happy Hacking!