Re: Where should one place support scripts and resources within a Catalyst project?

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Re^2: Where should one place support scripts and resources within a Catalyst project? by JNW (Novice) on Aug 25, 2011 at 08:23 UTC
A very excellent suggestion and certainly part of the story, thank you :) My understanding is that `install_script` will perform all of the necessary work to install the various additional scripts. Is there a way to additionally include the execution of distname_any-file.pl as part of the `make install` procedure? Perhaps it's easier with a working example to explain what I am doing (disclaimer: I have substituted my project name for the standard Catalyst tutorial myapp): Leaning on the advice of another reply to my original post (and to keep this explanation as simple as possible), I have created a database directory called `database` in the root directory of the project (so it's a sibling of `script`, `root`, `lib`, etc.), with the database update-upgrade script `myapp_database.pl`, and a directory called `sql` containing the necessary SQL files. The relevant part of the output of `tree -fi` is: `./database ./database/myapp_database.pl ./database/sql ./database/sql/create-tables.sql ./database/sql/create-data.sql` [download] My Makefile.PL now also includes: `install_script glob('database/myapp_database.pl'); install_share ( 'dist', 'database/sql');` [download] This nicely places the script and the SQL files in sensible places within the blib directory (genuinely impressed at how easy this was!) What I would like to do at this point is add something like: `post_install_execute 'myapp_database.pl';` Is this, or something equivalent, possible? Thank you again!	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Where should one place support scripts and resources within a Catalyst project? by Anonymous Monk on Aug 25, 2011 at 08:46 UTC
Is this, or something equivalent, possible? Lets see http://search.cpan.org/grep?cpanid=ADAMK&release=Module-Install-1.01&string=post&i=1&n=1&C=0 preamble, postamble (Module::Install::Makefile) looks like a candidate Checking ?node_id=3989;HIT=Module%3A%3AInstall;re=N Adding additional targets to Module::Install custom behavior with Module::Install/MakeMaker during standard CPAN install sequence yup, postamble seems promising	[reply]
Re^4: [SOLVED] Where should one place support scripts and resources within a Catalyst project? by JNW (Novice) on Aug 25, 2011 at 09:00 UTC
Brilliant! Thank you so much. That's led me to the answer that I was looking for: `postamble <<EOPOST; install :: run_myapp_database run_myapp_database: myapp_database.pl EOPOST` [download] (Where the space before `myapp_database.pl` is a tab character) Thank you so much for your time!	[reply] [d/l] [select]