Thanks for your response, steve, I'd been reading you in a different thread on issues in _Intermediate Perl_: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1165617
The XY direction I would like to take your response in is using timestamps to figure out this thing that I've just created:
C:\Users\Fred\Documents\alpaca>cd template_stuff
C:\Users\Fred\Documents\alpaca\template_stuff>module-starter --module=
+html3 --au
thor="Gilligan" -email="gilligan@minnow.com" --verbose
Created html3
Created html3\lib
Created html3\lib\html3.pm
Created html3\t
Created html3\t\pod-coverage.t
Created html3\t\00-load.t
Created html3\t\pod.t
Created html3\t\manifest.t
Created html3\xt
Created html3\xt\boilerplate.t
Created html3\ignore.txt
Created html3\Makefile.PL
Created html3\Changes
Created html3\README
Added to MANIFEST: Changes
Added to MANIFEST: ignore.txt
Added to MANIFEST: lib/html3.pm
Added to MANIFEST: Makefile.PL
Added to MANIFEST: MANIFEST
Added to MANIFEST: README
Added to MANIFEST: t/00-load.t
Added to MANIFEST: t/manifest.t
Added to MANIFEST: t/pod-coverage.t
Added to MANIFEST: t/pod.t
Added to MANIFEST: xt/boilerplate.t
Created html3\MANIFEST
Created starter directories and files
C:\Users\Fred\Documents\alpaca\template_stuff>
Results:
C:\Users\Fred\Documents\alpaca\template_stuff\html3>dir
Volume in drive C is Windows8_OS
Volume Serial Number is 3052-CD20
Directory of C:\Users\Fred\Documents\alpaca\template_stuff\html3
06/24/2016 08:30 PM <DIR> .
06/24/2016 08:30 PM <DIR> ..
06/24/2016 08:30 PM 110 Changes
06/24/2016 08:30 PM 198 ignore.txt
06/24/2016 10:41 PM <DIR> lib
06/24/2016 08:30 PM 701 Makefile.PL
06/24/2016 08:30 PM 129 MANIFEST
06/24/2016 08:30 PM 3,275 README
06/24/2016 08:30 PM <DIR> t
06/24/2016 08:30 PM <DIR> xt
5 File(s) 4,413 bytes
5 Dir(s) 50,578,202,624 bytes free
C:\Users\Fred\Documents\alpaca\template_stuff\html3>cd lib
C:\Users\Fred\Documents\alpaca\template_stuff\html3\lib>dir
Volume in drive C is Windows8_OS
Volume Serial Number is 3052-CD20
Directory of C:\Users\Fred\Documents\alpaca\template_stuff\html3\lib
06/24/2016 10:41 PM <DIR> .
06/24/2016 10:41 PM <DIR> ..
06/24/2016 08:30 PM 3,571 html3.pm
06/24/2016 10:41 PM 100 monks1.txt
2 File(s) 3,671 bytes
2 Dir(s) 50,578,989,056 bytes free
C:\Users\Fred\Documents\alpaca\template_stuff\html3\lib>
Question Y might be: why create a distribution? I've read that book cover to cover scratching my head about that, thinking that there's a good reason for the effort. Also know that I burned the way I used to create workspaces, ergo looking for new methods.
Question Z might be: how do I get a brand new shiny version of the code I had, using this toolchain, before I screwed it up, the inevitable next time I do?