Sounds fine to me.  It's too late to enforce the "opam-" prefix in the package 
name unfortunately.

Do you want to go ahead and make the change for publish so that it works with 
the plugin mechanism?

-a

> On 16 Aug 2015, at 18:18, Louis Gesbert <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Indeed. just 'publish' sounds a bit funny but why not.
> 
> opam doesn't support renaming very well. A workflow to have it done 
> transparently to users could be:
> 
> - create a new package publish.0.3.1
> - create a new empty package opam-publish.0.3.1 that depends on publish.0.3.1
> - make publish conflict with earlier opam-publish versions
> 
> This way an `opam upgrade` can pick up the name change.
> 
> We can also, of course, keep an alias.
> 
>> - Anil Madhavapeddy, 05/08/2015 16:43 -
>> I notice that "opam publish" doesn't autoinstall the plugin (as occurs with 
>> depext).  This is because the OPAM package name is "opam-publish" instead of 
>> simply "publish".  Should we rename it, or duplicate the package metadata so 
>> that the autoinstallation works?
>> 
>> -anil
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