Yikes! Still, this was only 123 lines of code that took me less than an hour to write. It would probably take me at least as much time just to read and understand Module::Starter's docs, or to figure out which of the custom extensions is closest to what I want and to customize it. I still think your best bet is to run "h2xs -AXn," delete the junk you don't need, and create a script to produce the stuff that is left.