On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 5:15 AM, Graham Leggett <minf...@sharp.fm> wrote: > The expression support is a superset of the regex support, making the regex > support redundant. > > The *Match parameters are self contained, you cannot make a backreference > outside the scope of that single directive. In contrast the > LocationMatch/DirectoryMatch sections are not self contained, their > backreferences are exposed to expressions and can be used and reused in many > unrelated directives. > > I have heard growing criticism of httpd for being too complicated, and this > is an attempt to address that. Supporting 7 directives to do the job of just > 3 makes people’s eyes bleed.
You'll still have 7 directives though. Some of them will be marked deprecated because they're less flexible. Sometimes less flexible is a sign of simplicity and not something to be relegated to a compat module. You'll also have two modules and two pages in the manual. The examples for Redirect will now have configuration sections with named back-references and won't work in htaccess. These users whose eyes bleed at the difference between Redirect and RedirectMatch or trying to capture the first component of the path aren't exactly going to do cartwheels when at the idea of new configuration sections and named back-references to accomplish a basic task. I still don't see any reason to call the existing *Match deprecated to add expression support.
