[development] up-to-date function

[Neil Drumm]

Ralf Stamm wrote:
> <?xml version=1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <drupal>
>   <module name="System Info">
>     <name>systeminfo</name>
>     <branch>4.7</branch>
>     <id>1.4</id>
>     <md5>201E0700D75E565FBD17FA95D90F99D3</md5>
>   </module>
> </drupal>

In case someone starts thinking about formats:

RDF- sorry, but I haven't seen a fully complaint RDF parser in PHP that 
is lightweight yet.

RSS- ask again once there is an RSS parser properly abstracted out of 
the aggregator module and into a .inc. Also, this data actually doesn't 
map especially well into RSS.

XML- its okay if you can stand parsing it with SAX.

INI- simplest to write and parse and suitable for name-value pairs, 
which is what I see here. And no, the file itself wouldn't be named *.ini.


I'd like to see this funtionality in Drupal core right on admin/modules. 
I thing nedjo might be working on this. Kieran- what were the two issue 
links?

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Neil Drumm
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