[Distutils] Support for multiple PyPI publishing identities is rather convoluted

[Noah Kantrowitz]

On Jun 1, 2014, at 8:02 AM, Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> My usecase is: I work on different projects in parallel, with different
> roles. For example, I work on community project and publish packages on
> behalf of it, and I publish personal packages too. Obviously, I want to
> have 2 separate PyPI publishing accounts for those roles. Also, I don't
> want to cleanup after dumb mistakes, so want to explicitly specify an
> identity to use for each publishing operation, and get an error if I
> don't.

PyPI has an ACL system to make this unnecessary. You can use a single account, and for the community project just grant multiple people access.

--Noah

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