Question about "obsidian" in id of manifest

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Over here, Manifest - Developer Documentation, it says " The ID of your plugin. The ID can’t contain obsidian ."

I have quite a few plugins installed that have “obsidian” in the id, (eg obsidian-linter). Was this a restriction that was later relaxed or was it never even enforced?

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I think it should be like this:

  • At first, there was no such rule, so many authors included the obsidian- prefix in the id (to match the GitHub repository).
  • But in fact, this prefix has no meaning at all, because plugins that run in Obsidian are definitely all “obsidian-” plugins.
  • So later, the official guidance required not adding this prefix to the id.
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