Just so I could landmark where I am with the project I did a test build of if and created a small test program to use the module and ran the install. Running the test program much to my shock resulted in my getting told by Perl it could not find the modules that I just installed? So what's up with that?

Increase verbosity so the ... whatever command you issued (Dist::Zilla::App::Command::instal) ... tells you what gets installed where

I tried it, --verbose is verbose about the dzil stuff, not about the cpanm install procedure 

$ dzil install --verbose
[DZ] reading configuration using Dist::Zilla::MVP::Reader::Finder
[@Basic/GatherDir] online, Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GatherDir v5.013
[@Basic/PruneCruft] online, Dist::Zilla::Plugin::PruneCruft v5.013
[@Basic/ManifestSkip] online, Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ManifestSkip v5.013
[@Basic/MetaYAML] online, Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MetaYAML v5.013
[@Basic/License] online, Dist::Zilla::Plugin::License v5.013
[@Basic/Readme] online, Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Readme v5.013
[@Basic/ExtraTests] online, Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ExtraTests v5.013
[@Basic/ExecDir] online, Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ExecDir v5.013
[@Basic/ShareDir] online, Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ShareDir v5.013
[@Basic/MakeMaker] online, Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MakeMaker v5.013
[@Basic/Manifest] online, Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Manifest v5.013
[@Basic/TestRelease] online, Dist::Zilla::Plugin::TestRelease v5.013
[@Basic/ConfirmRelease] online, Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ConfirmRelease v5
+.013
[@Basic/UploadToCPAN] online, Dist::Zilla::Plugin::UploadToCPAN v5.013
[DZ] building distribution under .build\zdrCz7ssNv for installation
[DZ] beginning to build Acme-NoDzil
[@Basic/GatherDir] adding file Acme-NoDzil-0.001.tar.gz
[@Basic/GatherDir] adding file dist.ini
[@Basic/GatherDir] adding file Acme-NoDzil-0.001/dist.ini
[@Basic/GatherDir] adding file Acme-NoDzil-0.001/LICENSE
[@Basic/GatherDir] adding file Acme-NoDzil-0.001/Makefile.PL
[@Basic/GatherDir] adding file Acme-NoDzil-0.001/MANIFEST
[@Basic/GatherDir] adding file Acme-NoDzil-0.001/META.yml
[@Basic/GatherDir] adding file Acme-NoDzil-0.001/README
[@Basic/GatherDir] adding file Acme-NoDzil-0.001/lib/Acme/NoDzil.pm
[@Basic/GatherDir] adding file lib/Acme/NoDzil.pm
[@Basic/MetaYAML] adding file META.yml
[@Basic/License] adding file LICENSE
[DZ] guessing dist's main_module is lib/Acme/NoDzil.pm
[DZ] extracting distribution abstract from lib/Acme/NoDzil.pm
[@Basic/Readme] adding file README
[@Basic/Manifest] adding file MANIFEST
[@Basic/PruneCruft] pruning Acme-NoDzil-0.001.tar.gz
[@Basic/PruneCruft] pruning Acme-NoDzil-0.001/dist.ini
[@Basic/PruneCruft] pruning Acme-NoDzil-0.001/LICENSE
[@Basic/PruneCruft] pruning Acme-NoDzil-0.001/Makefile.PL
[@Basic/PruneCruft] pruning Acme-NoDzil-0.001/MANIFEST
[@Basic/PruneCruft] pruning Acme-NoDzil-0.001/META.yml
[@Basic/PruneCruft] pruning Acme-NoDzil-0.001/README
[@Basic/PruneCruft] pruning Acme-NoDzil-0.001/lib/Acme/NoDzil.pm
[@Basic/ManifestSkip] file MANIFEST.SKIP not found
[@Basic/MakeMaker] adding file Makefile.PL
[DZ] writing Acme-NoDzil in .build\zdrCz7ssNv
[DZ] installing via {{["cpanm","."]}}
--> Working on .
Configuring Acme-NoDzil-0.001 ... OK
Building and testing Acme-NoDzil-0.001 ... OK
Successfully installed Acme-NoDzil-0.001
1 distribution installed
[DZ] all's well; removing .build\zdrCz7ssNv

[download]

I'm not surprised dzil still sucks

In reply to Re: what is up with Dist::Zilla? by Anonymous Monk
in thread what is up with Dist::Zilla? by blue_cowdawg

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