[QGIS-Developer] Renaming a plugin directory?

Wed Oct 16 06:05:51 PDT 2024

Dear Julien,

Thanks for reporting the issue. I've assigned this issue to myself.

Best regards,

Lova Andriarimalala

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On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 at 11:06, Julien Moura (Oslandia) via QGIS-Developer <
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> Hi Hannes and Lova,
>
> Thanks for asking and answering. We will proceed as recommended. It might
> be worth adding a relevant section in the plugins developer documentation
> or cookbook.
>
> To follow up about the naming convention, as written in
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Django/issues/475 I would suggest to make
> sure that new plugins folders are Python compliant since a plugin is a
> Python package and may be imported by other "Python things" within QGIS.
>
> Regards,
> Julien
> Le 14/10/2024 à 14:43, Lova Andriarimalala via QGIS-Developer a écrit :
>
> Dear Hannes,
>
> Sure, I think that's a great idea.
> I think it's better to rename the old plugin first if you want to keep the
> same name for the new one, as uploading a new plugin with an existing name
> is not allowed. Please, feel free to let me know if you need help with
> this. It's also possible to update the name from the metadata, although
> this option is disabled by default.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Lova Andriarimalala
>
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> On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 at 14:34, Johannes Kröger (WhereGroup) <
> johannes.kroeger at wheregroup.com> wrote:
>
>> 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,
>>
>> 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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