[TYPO3-core] RFC: #7370: Remove page doktype 5 (not in menu) and merge Normal with Advanced

[Michael Stucki]

Dmitry Dulepov [typo3] wrote:

> Michael Stucki wrote:
>> I agree with Olly, there is no difference if you make your change 10
>> months or 1 day before it is beta1.
> 
> Sorry, Michael, I do not. It is not good to annouce dropping something
> that late. Why do you see the need to drop it? Does it hurt that doktype=5
> exists? Does it cost money? Why does it have to be dropped now?

It confuses users because there is a page type for something they can
activate just by clicking the little checkbox two lines down.

The feature is redundant, which is generally not a problem, but it solves it
in two different ways.

>> And - be honest - you don't really use a condtion that checks for the
>> doktype on every website, do you? (I can't think of any, in my case.)
> 
> But it affects menu scripts.

No, a migration tool is provided!

- michael
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