I think the impact will be smaller than you describe above,
I really need a statement whether this change is ment for 1.7 or 1.6 Note (again) that if we make this change in 1.6 all MMBases everywhere will crash if people fail to adjust their configuration files. This is ok for a release (in which you can expect people to make reasonable adjustments), but, imo, very no-no for a patch, esp. since this is not a bugfix.
but I don't mind changing it only in the head of the MMBase repository.
I will add a remark in the 1.6 files that they are going to be removed in the next release.
greetings Rob
