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

[andrew morton]

On 11/20/06, Johan Forngren <johan at forngren.com> wrote:
> Indeed, but not all servers has xml-rpc or require some kind configuration
> to enable it. I think it's the masses who need this function the most, but
> also the ones who is less likely to set up xml-rpc.

Provided that PHP has the proper extensions configured, Drupal "out of
the box" with XML-RPC. I'm not sure what the exact percentage of hosts
that have the xml extension but according to the PHP docs (
http://us3.php.net/xml ) it's enabled by default.