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(mvc) remove previous sample from codebase, the helloworld plugin covers more. leave template sample in place, because it provides some additional options of the framework.

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(legacy) replace time with microtime in make_config_revision_entry, not needed for the config revision anymore because that method uses it's own timestamp. Revision entries are also used on some other config items, like firewall rules.

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(mvc) add default config revision if none is given, fix for https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues/386

(cherry picked from commit 11913af8)

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Leave out the submenu changes for now.

Discussed with: ad@

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(No actual changes.)

o comment blocks filled arrays disappear
o empty array tags disappear
o empty value tags collapse

This only leaves comment blocks in empty tags, which create
whitespace noise, which fucks up the config.xml real bad,
rippling through to the code that deal with is_array, isset
and actual = array() assignments to fix the faulty config.
Will clean this up one by one later.

(cherry picked from commit ed59098b)
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