[development] module_exists vs. functions_exists?

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Thomas Zahreddin <tz at it-arts.org>:

> Reading this thread, i ask myself and you why not using a established
> package format like RPM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPM_Package_Manager ,
> deb-format or some other out of the linux - environment, compared on
> http://kitenet.net/~joey/pkg-comp/
>
> Or if you are afraid of high complexity and efford to support such a format
> on all plattforms - then give the PEAR-or PECL-format a chance.
> I don't want to say any of these formats meets the requirements, but i did
> not have seen this formats discussed.
>
> What do you think about an more generaly used format for Drupal-packages?
>

http://drupal.org/project/Installation+profiles

But that doesn't help the need of module version dependency checking 
within the coded module.  For that I've just uploaded Module 
Versions[1] to CVS.  I've attached it to D5 for now.  I'll get a D6 tag 
going tomorrow.  The module should work for either and is aimed at 
Development and Developers only.

[1] http://drupal.org/project/modver

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