This was resolved in the project after the 0.10.0 release went out. I updated the readme file in the distribution with some additional information.
commit 96be8c8d9408548966b3fb2895a8b84ac1045a37
Author: James E. King, III <jking@apache.org>
Date: Fri Jan 27 11:45:57 2017 -0500
THRIFT-3550 add some information about thrift to the perl library README directing folks to the official web site for more info
Please file new defects in the Apache Jira database. Thanks!