Esteemed Monks

I am about to embark on a project, using Catalyst, where I know that the project will eventually be installed on many machines. The project is reliant on a database, which won't necessarily exist before the installation of the Catalyst project. Within the project, I would like to place both: a set of SQL creation/upgrade scripts; and a program that runs at "make install" time to either install, upgrade, or skip, the database installation, as defined by human response. I know how to do everything except add this install-upgrade-skip program to the install section of the make file, after running "perl Makefile.PL"

There are a number of possibilities:

• My understanding of the configuration of Module::Install is limited and I am incapable of understanding the documentation
• The documentation for this feature doesn't exist
• There is a way to do this, but not using Module::Install
• I have to handcraft the Makefile after running perl Makefile.PL
• I am committing heresy and should not place these files in the Catalyst project

Please could some generous monk point me in the right direction?

Thank you for your time!

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