[julia-users] Changing a package name

[Rob]

Does anyone have any tips on changing a packages name? I am looking to 
expand EEG.jl to encompass other electrophysiological techniques, and think 
the name Electrophysiology.jl would be more accurate.

Is the general consensus to keep the old repo around and provide a warning?
Or, change the name of the repo in github? I imagine this will cause issues 
with METADATA.jl?

Any tips to ease the transition would be appreciated.

Re: [julia-users] changing the package name

[Milan Bouchet-Valat]

Le mardi 26 avril 2016 à 09:17 -0700, Chang Kwon a écrit :
> I was wondering what is the proper way to change the package name
> under development. This is often the case when I submit a package and
> then was recommended to revise the package name. Well, without much
> knowledge of git, I always mess up...
> 
> When I'm ready to develop a package, I generate a package:
> Pkg.generate("TestPkg", "MIT")
> 
> and keep developing. When I'm ready to publish it, I do:
> 
> Pkg.register("TestPkg")
> Pkg.tag("TestPkg")
> Pkg.publish()
> 
> Then, I make a pull request on GitHub.
> 
> Suppose then I need to change the package name to "NewPackageName".
> What do I do now? 
> Things to do might be:
> 
> - change name of the GitHub.com repository
> - change the folder name from .julia/v0.4/TestPkg to
> .julia/v0.4/NewPackageName
> - changing the remote repository address to https://github.com/chkwon
> /NewPackageName.jl.git
> 
> Then I usually have some complaints and errors from Pkg.update() and
> Pkg.publish() saying that TestPkg does not exist, etc. At this
> moment, I'm messed up with .julia/v0.4 folder and all other
> repositories. What is the proper order of making changes? 
I've followed this process recently, and I don't remember errors like
that. As long as there isn't any mention of TestPkg under .julia, you
should be fine (and grep -R can tell you that).

Could you post the exact errors you get?


Regards

[julia-users] changing the package name

[Chang Kwon]

I was wondering what is the proper way to change the package name under 
development. This is often the case when I submit a package and then was 
recommended to revise the package name. Well, without much knowledge of 
git, I always mess up...

When I'm ready to develop a package, I generate a package:
Pkg.generate("TestPkg", "MIT")

and keep developing. When I'm ready to publish it, I do:

Pkg.register("TestPkg")
Pkg.tag("TestPkg")
Pkg.publish()

Then, I make a pull request on GitHub.

Suppose then I need to change the package name to "NewPackageName". What do 
I do now? 
Things to do might be:

- change name of the GitHub.com repository
- change the folder name from .julia/v0.4/TestPkg to 
.julia/v0.4/NewPackageName
- changing the remote repository address to 
https://github.com/chkwon/NewPackageName.jl.git

Then I usually have some complaints and errors from Pkg.update() and 
Pkg.publish() saying that TestPkg does not exist, etc. At this moment, I'm 
messed up with .julia/v0.4 folder and all other repositories. What is the 
proper order of making changes?