Alien:...::Utils(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to Alien::Base::ModuleBuild::Utils — and the manual page you're reading rn is Alien:...::Utils(3pm), filed under User Contributed Perl Documentation 🎀 (yes the title is abbreviated like that, it's giving mystery, it's giving intrigue, iykyk).

Anyway. The actual deal? Private utilities. That's it. That's the whole description. It's private, it's utilities, it's not for you unless it's for you. Periodt 💅

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✨ VERSION ✨

version 1.17 🦋 — that's the one you're on, bestie.

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🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

like, go look at these when you're done here, they're the real ones:

• Alien
• Alien::Base

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

okay so the original author is:

• Joel A Berger <joel.a.berger@gmail.com> 🌟

and the current maintainer is:

• Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org> 🫶

Contributors — aka the whole squad, the entire group chat, absolute icons every single one of them 💖:

• David Mertens (run4flat)
• Mark Nunberg (mordy, mnunberg)
• Christian Walde (Mithaldu)
• Brian Wightman (MidLifeXis)
• Graham Ollis (plicease)
• Zaki Mughal (zmughal)
• mohawk2
• Vikas N Kumar (vikasnkumar)
• Flavio Poletti (polettix)
• Salvador Fandiño (salva)
• Gianni Ceccarelli (dakkar)
• Pavel Shaydo (zwon, trinitum)
• Kang-min Liu (劉康民, gugod)
• Nicholas Shipp (nshp)
• Petr Písař (ppisar)
• Alberto Simões (ambs)

not me getting emotional over a contributor list 😭 the way they all showed up and built this. main character energy from every single one.

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📜 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 📜

So this software is copyright (c) 2012-2022 by Joel A Berger 💜 — clock the date range, a whole decade of love went into this.

And it's free software bestie 🎉 you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. So like, the Perl 5 vibes, those exact vibes, carry over. no cap.

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lowkey one last thing — this whole thing is perl v5.42.0 flavored and the page got stamped 2025-07-25, so yeah, that's the tea, that's the version, that's the date. slay 💅✨ bye bestie 🫶