Re: PEP 541 Regarding emd

On 4 August 2018 at 03:34, Chathika Gunaratne
<[email protected]> 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://github.com/chathika/EMD
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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,
> https://pypi.org/project/emd/1.0/#history .
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> I read about PEP 541 https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0541/ 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
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