[wp-xmlrpc] Extending XML-RPC to provide Plugin information

[Joe Hoyle]

Hi Everyone,

I was recently writing a plugin where I hooked into XML-RPC to provide  
plugin information to clients using the API. The hook creates an new  
xmlrpc method called wp.getPluginList which returns the get_plugins()  
array. It also adds a couple of extra keys to each plugin array:
	
	Firstly it adds $plugins[$plugin_file]['active'] = is_plugin_active 
( $plugin_file );
	And aslo the latest version of each plugin (using get_transient 
( 'update_plugins' ) ) so the version can be compared by the client  
accessing xml-rpc

I am not aware of the stance of opening up XML-RPC to show as much  
information about the Wordpress install as possible, but does anyone  
think that this could possibly be adopted into core? For the project I  
am working on it would be great to be able to access plugin  
information remotely without the need to the user to install an  
additional plugin on their site.

Thanks

Joe Hoyle