[QGIS-Developer] Renaming a plugin directory?

[Lova Andriarimalala]

Dear Hannes,

At the moment, it's not possible to change a plugin's directory name
(package_name) even through the administration page.

This feature was previously requested with a PR, but it was closed due to
potential client-side issues. When the package_name changes, QGIS may
recognize the plugin as a new one, leading to possible installation errors.
You can find the related PR and a more detailed discussion about it at
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Django/pull/271.

However, we are open to new ideas and suggestions on this matter. I can
also re-check the feature to have an updated detail about it.

Best regards,

Lova Andriarimalala


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On Fri, 11 Oct 2024 at 14:30, Johannes Kröger (WhereGroup) via
QGIS-Developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hi there!
>
> Wonderful people from Oslandia have started collaborating on our
> experimental (and somewhat buggy) Profile Manager plugin.
>
> https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/profile-manager/
> https://github.com/WhereGroup/profile-manager/
>
> One of the changes was restructuring the repository and using a
> PEP8-compliant directory name for the plugin's module directory
> ("profile_manager" instead of "profile-manager").
>
> Now the automated CI/CD upload of new releases fails. Presumably because
> the site expects "profile_manager".
>
> https://github.com/WhereGroup/profile-manager/issues/10#issuecomment-2402479699
>
> Would it be possible to update that on the plugin's existing Plugins
> repository entry?
>
> I saw
> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2024-May/066744.html
> but that was only for the user visible name, the plugin's URL and the
> installed directory name stayed the same.
>
> What would it mean for existing users?
> Would they simply not be notified about new releases, and have to
> install the "new" plugin manually?
> Or would something break and require manual intervention, e.g. two
> version of the plugin being installed and loaded, one in
> plugins/profile_manager and the old one in plugins/profile-manager?
>
> Cheers, Hannes
>
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