Ok, so as an experiment I: 1.

nextflow plugin nf-tower:asdf

and a) downloaded it to

$HOME/.nextflow/plugins

and b) as expected gave me a usage error because

asdf

is not a recognized command. 2. Turned off wifi to force offline usage, the above now works 3. did a

cp -r nf-tower-1.9.1/ nf-foo-1.9.1/

and then removed the two references of

nf-tower

in the

nf-foo

hierarchy (specifically in

META-INF/MANIFEST.MF

and

classes/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF

4. Then tried

nexflow plugin nf-foo:asdf

and get the error

ERROR ~ Cannot find latest version of nf-foo plugin

What am I missing here? Is Nextflow tracking the installed CLI plugins elsewhere? Is there some other magic I’d need to modify in the

nf-foo

copy to make step #4 work?

likely because the plugin JAR was still built as nf-tower

There’s no jar in the plug-ins dir, it’s been unrolled. And all the references that would have been to nf-tower inside the jar have been changed