Once upon a time, like around release 4.1 or 4.2, I started coding a module which would enable several debug features, both locally and remotely. One part of that was an XML RPC which could be turned on administratively which would allow a query to return some information about the Drupal installation. The information was intended to be items which would help debugging a problem, providing support or reporting bugs/problems in the software. The module would gather the information and send it as a returned array from the RPC. Unfortunately, I accidentally deleted my work before it got backed up or committed to my local CVS. One of the roadblocks I had at the time was no good way of knowing which versions of the various pieces of the Drupal software were being used. Since then, partly because of my asking for it, all (most?) Drupal files have a $Id$ CVS keyword in them, in a comment line. At a minimum, that would allow an fopen() or similar to be used to find out what versions of files were being used. Not the most beautiful way of handling this issue, but at least workable. Another problem that I was trying to solve then, and that I still run into often now while managing half a dozen or so Drupal-based sites in my so-called spare time is knowing which version of software they are currently running. I can figure this out eventually via one method or another, but it would be so nice to be able to just view it from the admin options. This piece of information would also be useful for the previously mentioned debug/reporting module, too. To that end, is there any chance we could make it convention that all Drupal files would, in addition to the $Id$ keyword, include the $Name$ keyword? And if all that sounds reasonable, I'd like to mention briefly a common coding pattern for handling just this kind of question, and one which I also use in most source files. That is, make these version and release strings available to the program itself without file reading (fopen()) introspection tricks. Extremely common example from C (source code to most Unixes): #if 0 static char sccsid[] = "@(#)w.c 8.4 (Berkeley) 4/16/94"; #endif static const char rcsid[] = "$FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/w/w.c,v 1.38.2.7 2003/08/15 21:58:14 rwatson Exp $"; Similarly, in PHP: $version = "\$Revision: 1.6 $"; $release = "\$Name: build_1_2_19 $"; Any chance of doing something like that with Drupal? If not in all files, maybe just the release in common.inc? -- Chris Johnson