Dist::Zilla::App::Command::regenerate "Dist::Zilla::App::Command::regenerate" provides a "regenerate" command to "Dist::Zilla" that allows some simple tooling to update your source tree when you choose to. This works by producing a new synthetic target like the "release" target, which happens after the "build" stage, but does not produce a release. In conjunction with appropriate "plugins" performing "-Regenerator", This means that: * You won't be frustrated with "dzil build" constantly tweaking your source tree * You won't be forced to ship a release just to update the state of some files that are generated by plugins * You won't even have to update your source tree ever if you don't want to. When calling "dzil regenerate", a full copy of the distribution is built in a temporary directory like it does when you call "dzil test". Then after "dzil regenerate" has written your built distribution out to the temporary directory, any "plugin"'s that perform the "-Regenerator" role are called and told where your source tree is, and where the build tree is, and they are expected to do the required work. In effect, "dzil regenerate" is a lot like: dzil build --not && \ DO_STUFF_WITH .build/latest/ && \ MAYBECOPY .build/latest/stuff ./stuff Where those last 2 lines are done with "plugins". INSTALLATION This is a Perl module distribution. It should be installed with whichever tool you use to manage your installation of Perl, e.g. any of cpanm . cpan . cpanp -i . Consult http://www.cpan.org/modules/INSTALL.html for further instruction. Should you wish to install this module manually, the procedure is perl Makefile.PL make make test make install COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2017 by Kent Fredric . This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.