[development] Doing hook_update_N() when module is installed

[Pierre Rineau]

On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 08:55 -0500, Nancy Wichmann wrote:
> My suggestion would rather be to just call the appropriate hook_update_N()
> within the hook_install(). It may look a bit of a kludge, but it is the
> safer thing to do.

I often does some thing like:

function _mymodule_some_new_really_important_business_stuff() {
  // Bla bla
}

function mymodule_install() {
  // Some stuff
  _mymodule_some_business_stuff();
  // Some other stuff
}

function mymodule_update_N() {
  // Some stuff again
  _mymodule_some_business_stuff();
  // Some other stuff again
}

To remove some ambiguity. It does nothing more than calling the
mymodule_update_N() function into the hook_install(), but it allows you
to put other things that don't have to be called at install in the same
hook_update_N() implementation.

Pierre.