On Jan 4, 2007, at 12:20 AM, Dries Buytaert wrote:
This is core functionality.
i totally agree. work has already begun here: http://drupal.org/node/94154 "module page could say if new releases are available" (feature request against 6.x-dev, with a lot of initial work hashing out implementation ideas).
we'll want to build command-line tools or libraries for this
very good point.
I suggest we create a release.inc for core with the basic functionality required to make some of this possible.
sounds good. however, i should caution anyone planning to work on this stuff, if you haven't already, please read this comment (at least the 1st bullet point) about why core's release.inc should *NOT* have knowledge of CVS, $Name$ or $Id$ strings, etc: http://drupal.org/node/87298#comment-154604 in other news... bless his soul, nedjo has rolled a patch for the project.module XML-RPC server side to hand out the data: http://drupal.org/node/48580 needs review, but it's pretty simple, and could potentially go live in a matter of days (i can devote more time to this once i finish up the last of my tasks getting project* 5.x ready for the big d.o deployment). cheers, -derek