[QGIS-Developer] Renaming a plugin directory?

[Johannes Kröger (WhereGroup)]

Hi Lova,

thanks for your swift response!

That's what I expected and what seems very reasonable, considering the 
potential for problems. I think we will simply publish a new version of 
the old plugin to display a message to our (few) existing users and 
create a "new" plugin for the new version.

That should keep surprise factor low and allow a clean cut without any 
unforeseen issues.

Are we able to upload a new plugin that uses the same name as the 
existing, deprecated one? Or do we have to choose a new name (or a 
different name for the old one) first?

Thank you!

Cheers, Hannes

On 11.10.24 15:21, Lova Andriarimalala wrote:
> 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,
>
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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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