You can install this using in the usual Perl fashion perl Makefile.PL make make test make install The documentation is in the module file. Once you install the file, you can read it with perldoc. perldoc Module::Release Look at the example script in script/release. This module is also in Github git://github.com/briandfoy/module-release.git Enjoy, brian d foy, bdfoy@cpan.org