Alien::...:Gather(3)

💖 Alien::Build::Plugin::Gather — the manual page, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, gather round (pun fully intended, i'm hilarious) because this is the Alien::...:Gather(3) page, from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection, and we are going to READ it together. no skimming. we're doing this properly. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

Alien::Build::Plugin::Gather — it gathers up Alien::Build plugins. that's it. that's the job. it's giving party host energy, collecting all the plugins into one room. 🎀

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🌸 VERSION 🌸

version 2.88. locked in. ✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

look at this. short, sweet, iconic:

use alienfile;
plugin 'Gather::IsolateDynamic';  # just as an example

and yeah, the comment literally says # just as an example — i'm not making that up, that's canon, i'm keeping it fr fr. 💅

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so Gather plugins? they enhance your alienfile recipes at the gather stage. and when does the gather stage happen? either during a "system" install or a "share" install. both. either. your call, bestie. 🌈

👑 Alien::Build::Plugin::Gather::IsolateDynamic

this one isolates dynamic libraries — that's .so, <.DLL> or .dylib — so that they aren't used by XS. it's basically putting them in a little timeout corner, respectfully. 🙈

lowkey important: this is listed right here as an example of a Gather plugin living under this namespace. don't come for me, i'm just telling you what the page says.

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

go read these next, they're the friends of this page:

• Alien::Build
• Alien::Build::Plugin

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Author: Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

and now — the contributor list. it's long. it's gorgeous. every single one of these legends gets their name said, no cap:

Contributors:

• Diab Jerius (DJERIUS)
• Roy Storey (KIWIROY)
• Ilya Pavlov
• David Mertens (run4flat)
• Mark Nunberg (mordy, mnunberg)
• Christian Walde (Mithaldu)
• Brian Wightman (MidLifeXis)
• Zaki Mughal (zmughal)
• mohawk (mohawk2, ETJ)
• 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)
• Juan Julián Merelo Guervós (JJ)
• Joel Berger (JBERGER)
• Petr Písař (ppisar)
• Lance Wicks (LANCEW)
• Ahmad Fatoum (a3f, ATHREEF)
• José Joaquín Atria (JJATRIA)
• Duke Leto (LETO)
• Shoichi Kaji (SKAJI)
• Shawn Laffan (SLAFFAN)
• Paul Evans (leonerd, PEVANS)
• Håkon Hægland (hakonhagland, HAKONH)
• nick nauwelaerts (INPHOBIA)
• Florian Weimer
• Marcel Telka (mtelka)

that's thirty-two names of pure main character energy. we stan each and every one. 👑💖

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🧚 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🧚

This software is copyright (c) 2011-2022 by Graham Ollis.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

so yes, it's free, it's open, go forth and redistribute — just keep the same terms as Perl 5 itself. periodt. 💅

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okay and that's the whole page, bestie, you ate that. this was Alien::...:Gather(3), coming to you from perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-09-21 — mwah, a whole entire vibe. 💖✨🎀🦋🌸