NAME Dist::Zilla::Util::CurrentCmd - Attempt to determine the current command Dist::Zilla is running under. VERSION version 0.002002 SYNOPSIS use Dist::Zilla::Util::CurrentCmd qw(current_cmd); ... if ( is_install() ) { die "This plugin hates installing things for some reason!" } if ( is_build() ) { print "I Love you man\n"; } if ( current_cmd() eq 'run' ) { die "RUN THE OTHER WAY" } DESCRIPTION This module exists in case you are absolutely certain you want to have different behaviors for either a plugin, or a bundle, to trigger on ( or off ) a specific phase. Usually, this is a bad idea, and the need to do this suggests a poor choice of work-flow to begin with. That said, this utility is probably more useful in a bundle than in a plugin, in that it will be slightly more optimal than say, having an ENV flag to control this difference. FUNCTIONS current_cmd Returns the name of the of the first command entry in the caller stack that matches /\ADist::Zilla::App::Command::(.*)::([^:\s]+)\z/msx For instance: Dist::Zilla::App::Command::build::execute -> build is_build Convenience shorthand for current_cmd() eq 'build' is_install Convenience shorthand for current_cmd() eq 'install' as_cmd Internals wrapper to lie to code operating in the callback that the current_cmd is. as_cmd('install' => sub { is_install(); # true }); CAVEATS User beware, this code is both hackish and new, and relies on using caller to determine which Dist::Zilla::App::Command:: we are running under. There may be conditions that there are no Commands in the caller stack which meet this definition, or the first such thing may be a misleading representation of what is actually running. And there's a degree of uncertainty of reliability, because I haven't yet devised reliable ways of testing it that don't involve invoking dzil ( which is problematic on testers where Dist::Zilla is in @INC but dzil is not in ENV{PATH} ) To that extent, I don't even know for sure if this module works yet, or if it works in a bundle, or if it works in all commands, or if it works under Dist::Zilla::App::Tester as expected. AUTHOR Kent Fredric COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2014 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.