[development] hook_schema() now in .install, not .schema

[Earl Miles]

Barry Jaspan wrote:
> Public service announcement:
> 
> Prior to http://drupal.org/node/150245, hook_schema() was always defined 
> in a module's .schema file.  There was never any good reason for it to 
> be there.  The bad reason was "to avoid parsing the extra code in 
> .install."  However, the results of hook_schema() are cached so the 
> functions only have to be called when modules are enabled/disabled or 
> when CCK type structures change.  This is very rare and parsing the 
> .install files only on those occasions is not a performance issue.
> 
> Now, hook_schema() must be defined in .install.  The good reason for 
> this is that it makes much more sense to have the schema definition and 
> the schema update functions in the same place.  It will make bugs of the 
> "changed hook_schema() without a hook_update_N() or vice versa" sort 
> less likely.  And it is where God intended hook_schema() to be (says the 
> atheist).
> 
> If this had been an actual emergency, your mail server would already 
> have crashed.

Personally, I think this was a mistake.

Not that the idea itself wasn't good, but module developers have already 
started porting stuff over, and now there are no modules that can 
simultaneously work with Drupal 6-beta1 and Drupal 6-beta2. This is one 
of the things that can really frustrate module developers, and I don't 
see a pressing need for this change. Yes, it was an error and probably 
shouldn't have been this way, but it wasn't hurting anything, either.