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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 10:30:10 -0500
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Subject: Re: [Patch] Simplifying mod_alias
From: Eric Covener <covener@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm> wrote:
>> I still don't see any reason to call the existing *Match deprecated to
>> add expression support.
>
> I see no link between the two. I would like to deprecate the *Match directives, but that has no bearing on expression support.

I thought the entire point of the thread was that expression support
in the base directives obsoleted the *Match versions.  If you didn't
have the expression support, how would you describe the deprecation of
RedirectMatch to a user?  Should they use mod_rewrite?