Re: [development] RFC: letting modules phone home to check for new releases

Johan Forngren wrote:

I don't like iframes either, but it is a lot simpler to set up than xml-rpc. Allthough, I would prefer a xmlrpc solution, or both.

Since Drupal already has a good xmlrpc library, xmlrpc is actually very simple. It's actually easier than trying to parse an RSS feed, in fact.