<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">I'm afraid I can't,<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">currently it creates a bug !<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">When installing from QGIS plugin repository, <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">it gives an error message.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">This error message would be because the plugin name and folder name are different.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">So one way or another, the folder name has to be changed to match the plugin name !<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">So you see we don't have much choice here...<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Cheers,<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Rémi-C<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-05-29 15:17 GMT+02:00 Alessandro Pasotti <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:apasotti@gmail.com" target="_blank">apasotti@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">2015-05-29 14:52 GMT+02:00 Rémi Cura <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:remi.cura@gmail.com" target="_blank">remi.cura@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Hey, thanks for the super-quick answer.<br><br>Can't we just change the plugin database for this plugin?<br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Surely there is a way to do it manually !<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Yes, but it's not trivial.<br></div><span class=""><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace"></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Or simply change the folder name on the server?<br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Deleting the plugin make it loose all the history, which I find quit bad. <br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Also, if the consequences are so dire, wouldn't is be necessary to check at import that plugin name and folder name match?<br></div></div></blockquote><br></span>Sorry for the quick (and wrong) answer :)<br><br>I checked the exact constraint: the package name (the name of the fist folder in the zip file) is independent from the plugins name and cannot be changed (while the plugin name, visible to the user, can change) the package name is a unique key used internally to build the URLs and to retrieve plugin packages and is kept unique to make sure that there are no plugins with the same package name.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">The problem here is that it cannot be easily changed without breaking a lot of things.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">You can just stick with the old package/folder name, it will be just visible in the URLs.<br><br></div><span class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div>-- <br><div>Alessandro Pasotti<br>w3: <a href="http://www.itopen.it" target="_blank">www.itopen.it</a></div>
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