On 4 August 2018 at 03:34, Chathika Gunaratne
<Chathika.Gunaratne@ucf.edu> wrote:
> Dear Admin,
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> I am writing to you regarding the Package Index name emd. I am a PhD student
> at the University of Central Florida and for my dissertation, I have
> recently developed a Python software, Evolutionary Model Discovery, which I
> am assembling into a package, EMD.
https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fchathika%2FEMD&data=02%7C01%7CChathika.Gunaratne%40ucf.edu%7Cf77c90502df5422c1a8f08d5faa7fc55%7Cbb932f15ef3842ba91fcf3c59d5dd1f1%7C0%7C1%7C636690521767751879&sdata=NPdALwOIFwsMqDhryDiwKPFJx%2B7JT2ytwlQxDaeycFk%3D&reserved=0
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> However, I noticed that there is already a package named emd on pypi.org.
> This package seems abandoned with just one release in February 2012 and no
> contact information about the author,
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> I read about PEP 541
https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.python.org%2Fdev%2Fpeps%2Fpep-0541%2F&data=02%7C01%7CChathika.Gunaratne%40ucf.edu%7Cf77c90502df5422c1a8f08d5faa7fc55%7Cbb932f15ef3842ba91fcf3c59d5dd1f1%7C0%7C1%7C636690521767751879&sdata=Hu%2BZDHojM7AenJ2hq%2Fnpsz3dWMrnZEiGS6bwTVWuQPs%3D&reserved=0
and was
> curious as to if it is still possible that I can acquire the package name
> EMD. I wanted to make sure of this before I went ahead with the name EMD for
> my package, please.
Generally speaking its not whether a package has been updated that
matters, its whether the package is in use: if its published in
debian/suse/fedora, if its getting downloads, then taking over the
name is going to have negative consequences.
That said, this has had 0 downloads per the bigtable statistics (0 for
all recorded time) so in this case that seems unlikely.
-Rob