[Distutils] Name arbitration on PyPI

Mon Apr 18 18:56:43 EDT 2016

Here: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PIL
It was downloadable until external downloads were disallowed.

19.04.2016, 01:49, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal kirjoitti:
>
>> Another high profile example of such a project: PIL.
>
> Was PIL ever on PyPi? Anyway, yup, the solution there was to fork give 
> it s new name -- Pillow was born.
>
> CHB
>
>
>> 19.04.2016, 00:56, Chris Barker kirjoitti:
>>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 2:31 PM, Ian Cordasco 
>>> <graffatcolmingov at gmail.com <mailto:graffatcolmingov at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     >> 1.ï¿½ PyYAML is a package that would be de-registered in such a scheme.ï¿½ It
>>>
>>> ï¿½
>>>
>>>     > and you don't think ANYONE would be willing to take on the miniscule amount
>>>     > of work to maintain the name? Plus there would be any number
>>>     of other
>>>     > schemes for determining whether a project name is abandoned.
>>>
>>>     I have in fact offered but the author refuses to accept help from
>>>     anyone. They're also the author of the C library (libyaml) and
>>>     they do
>>>     not maintain that either. It's actually quite frustrating as someone
>>>     who wants to fix some of the numerous bugs in the library +
>>>     improve it
>>>     and add support for YAML 1.2 which is years old at this point.
>>>
>>>
>>> Interesting third case I hadn't considered -- the original author is 
>>> still "active", but not actually maintaining the software or 
>>> accepting help. I don't think there is anything PyPi policy can do 
>>> about that -- too bad.
>>>
>>> Time for a fork?ï¿½
>>>
>>> -CHB
>>>
>>>
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