Documentation on project page is unclear

Yes, I'm confused too here. It will help that Dave will clarify what's the progress of the module. Is supposed to replace Global Redirect ? Or be an API only?
Related #1155428: Merge with the Redirect module for D7
Thanks

global redirect automatically redirects non clean urls to clean urls. otherwise DUPLICATE CONTENT
pathauto allows to generate autmatically paths with tokens/patterns
redirect allows custom redirections like redirect /fooo to /baar (because contents path has been renamed)

thats what i know. non of these modules repalces one of the others.

edit:

i think i kno what you mean, just read the README.TXT

This is the new module home for a unified redirection API (also replaces
path_redirect and globalredirect).

it seems that its planned to integrate this stuff into globalredirect, but hasent been done by now. so you need them all i think

Trying to help answer this as we are using all 3 modules.

Is it a replacement for them?

- I do not feel it is. More of a complement as another tool for URL management. If I can make a poor analogy, think of these as 3 different hammers all for different types of nails.

Currently I have Pathauto and Global Redirect installed on several dozen sites I administer but after seeing a mention of this module in Pathauto I decided to check it out.

If this module is indeed a replacement for all the other redirect modules I feel like that should be explicitly mentioned on this project page and the pages of the modules it replaces.

As I see the three modules:

1. Pathauto -- This module helps you create uniform URL's based on rules or patterns for new content or bulk update existing content.
2. Global Redirect -- This module helps you to automatically redirect pages from node/ to the URL created by either Drupal core Clean URLs or Pathauto.
3. Redirect -- This module helps where the other are missing -- For example we moved our legacy site to Drupal and had a new URL structure. This module helped us with all our redirects that otherwise would have been a trouble or required editing the web serves .htaccess (assuming apache). Also if you change a URL the core URL Alias module can help but this contrib module provides a bit of analytics and direct interface on the node edit pages.

I hope this helps.

If so perhaps you can update the project page.

Cheers!
hg

Doing most of the desired features of Global Redirect into this module has always been planned, see #905914: Merge global redirect functions into Redirect module.

@DaveReid - Is the above accurate? If so I can update the project page.

I think that there should be something about the comparison of this module to Global Redirect on the project page. There's some info about it indicating the functionality of it is being merged in, but I think the community would benefit from a clear explanation of the intentions of both modules moving forward instead of users having to dig through issue queues.

@ Kevin Morse -- You are welcome -- I really am finding this module "redirect" extremely helpful as we have a legacy site and are now trying to simply the URLs.

Closing it, as I guess the project page has changed since the issue was created. It is now clear and includes links to the related projects.

Explanations in #6 are great and could be included in a documentation page that compares these modules.