Thank you, i will try and use Module::Starter::Plugin or its Template API. The POD documentation is quite short, i'll try and tweak it around.

I will try and use Module::Starter::Smart again, right now, and comment what i'm doing (on a Windows XP OS).

First of all, here is my C:/Dropbox/.module-starter/config file :

author:  mascip
email:   example@gmail.com
builder: Module::Build
plugin: Module::Starter::Smart
plugins: Module::Starter::PBP
template_dir: C:\Dropbox\.module-starter\PBP
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If you think that not using the PBP plugin, i could just take it off the configuration file, and do all of this again.

Now, i use module-starter

C:\>module-starter --distro=My-Example --module=My::Example::Class --m
+odule=Other::Example
configdir : C:\Dropbox\.module-starter
configdir : C:\Dropbox\.module-starter
Added to MANIFEST: Build.PL
Added to MANIFEST: Changes
Added to MANIFEST: ignore.txt
Added to MANIFEST: lib/My/Example/Class.pm
Added to MANIFEST: lib/Other/Example.pm
Added to MANIFEST: MANIFEST
Added to MANIFEST: README
Added to MANIFEST: t/00.load.t
Added to MANIFEST: t/perlcritic.t
Added to MANIFEST: t/pod-coverage.t
Added to MANIFEST: t/pod.t
Created starter directories and files
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Now my distro is created, and i check in the C:/My-Example/My/Example/Class.pm file that the boilerplate is as expected. It is. In the code i can read

=head1 AUTHOR

mascip  C<< <example@gmail.com> >
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which shows that my configuration file did its job (i changed the email address to example@gmail.com, just before starting this example).

Now it's time to try and use Module::Starter::Smart, which was included in the configuration file as you can see above.

C:\>module-starter --distro=My-Example --module=My::Example::TheNewCla
+ss
configdir : C:\Dropbox\.module-starter
configdir : C:\Dropbox\.module-starter
My-Example already exists.  Use --force if you want to stomp on it.
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It doesn't work as expected.

Now i try it the other way around, giving the --module argument before --ditro, and obtain the same result :

C:\>module-starter --distro=My-Example --module=My::Example::TheNewCla
+ss
configdir : C:\Dropbox\.module-starter
configdir : C:\Dropbox\.module-starter
My-Example already exists.  Use --force if you want to stomp on it.
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And finally, if i go in my distro's directory, and try to create a module, then a get a whole new distro inside my first distro:

C:\>module-starter --distro=My-Example --module=My::Example::TheNewCla
+ss
configdir : C:\Dropbox\.module-starter
configdir : C:\Dropbox\.module-starter
My-Example already exists.  Use --force if you want to stomp on it.
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Did i do anything wrong?

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