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Posted by indigoxela on Tue, May 13, 2025 - 10:47pm

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Tue, May 13, 2025 - 10:59pm by indigoxela

Project name vs. repo name - a topic for our DEV meeting.

The usual case is that the project name and the repo name are the same. So mymodule.info and mymodule.module are in a directory mymodule.

However, in very rare cases a D7 module doesn't follow that common practice, and its repo name is different. Such a module can be ported, can be released (gets packaged) - but it can't get enabled.

What we might need is some policy and documentation, or - if we want to support that, it should work in the installer.
Either way, there needs to be clarity. Especially for people porting D7 modules. For example instructions how to rename such a project (if we enforce exact match).

And if we enforce exact match, the packager should refuse to build a release (happens in the project module, I guess).

Not sure if that needs a PMC decision.

See also:

The core issue opened recently by a new contributor, who ran into that problem: https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop-issues/issues/6901

A short discussion in our Zulip chat, where preferences rather seem to be "strict match":

https://backdrop.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/218635-Backdrop/topic/Project.20name.20vs.20directory.20name/with/517458038