Proposed Module API change to enable RSS feed for recent activity

While developing an RSS feed for recent activity we altered the way the modules were getting and displaying their recent activity.

The change was splitting up the $modname._print_recent_activity(..) function into a $modname._get_recent_activity(..) and $modname._print_recent_activity(..) so that the RSS feed could use the modules get function and the existing print functions could still be called from within course/lib.php for displaying the recent activity block.

We would like to suggest this as a possible API change for Modules in 2.0.

Attached is a patch for the suggested API change using the Forum Module, it is a follow up of the original Tracker issue #MDL-17045 and supplied patch.

Thanks,
Stacey Walker