Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
PyPI is a separate project from CPython and has its own repository, tracker,
and developers.
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nosy: +terry.reedy
resolution: -> third party
stage: -> resolved
status: open -> closed
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ChrisRands added the comment:
Thanks Rémi, I missed that in PEP 541. I am still concerned that PyPI may
become saturated with unmaintained packages (it is already common that one's
preferred package name is taken). However, the guidance is already clear, and I
guess anything stronger, like
Rémi Lapeyre added the comment:
Hi Chris, this is explicitly forbidden in the Terms of use of Pypi and the PEP
451 at https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0541/#invalid-projects:
> Invalid projects
> A project published on the Package Index meeting ANY of the following is
> considered
New submission from ChrisRands :
Not sure if this is the right place to mention this (apologies if not).
Naturally, package names are unique so when you run `pip install package-name`
there is no ambiguity. However, this means that package names are limited and
potentially valuable. Already
