Hello dearest Monks,

At $work we use Dist::Zilla for all distribution management tasks. This mostly works, but I have issues with POD coverage tests.

First, I cannot find out how to specify a different Pod::Coverage subclass, e.g. Pod::Coverage::CountParents. The dzil plugin uses Pod::Coverage::TrustPod, presumably because that's how RJBS does it, and I can't find a way to change it. Have I missed something or should I file a feature request?

This is secondary, but it seems to me that just *running* the POD coverage tests is rather hard too. In my own non-dzil distributions, I would just run

prove xt/pod-coverage.t

With dzil, I have found only the two following methods:

• dzil test --release

  which also runs the whole test suite, whereas I'm just trying to see if I have finally finished updating the doc or if I missed a method somewhere
• the cumbersome

  RELEASE_TESTING=1 dzil run prove t/release-pod-coverage.t

  which forces me to build the distribution once beforehand to check that the POD coverage test file is where I think it is

Since everybody says that dzil makes your life easier, I cannot believe I'm using it right. What did I miss?

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