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

[Robert Douglass]

Bèr, have you ever written a tutorial on how to use the Sympal scripts? 
I think a lot of people are unaware of what they can do and how you use 
them. Sorry if you have, and I missed it =)

Bèr Kessels wrote:
> There already is an automated installer.... sigh.
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> Op dinsdag 21 november 2006 19:13, schreef Oswald Jaskolla:
>   
>> I am currently working on a system to automatically install modules (i.e
>> download and unpack into the appropriate directory) and upgrade modules
>> (i.e. overwrite present files). The architecture is finished:
>>     
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> http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/modules/sympal_scripts/module_fetcher/
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