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

[Noah Kantrowitz]

On Jun 1, 2014, at 12:30 PM, Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On Sun, 1 Jun 2014 12:10:01 -0700
> Noah Kantrowitz <noah at coderanger.net> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> Unnecessary what exactly? On my packages' PyPI pages, I want to have 
> "Package Index Owner: pfalcon", and on other packages' pages, I don't
> want to have "pfalcon" (and want to have another specific username).
> Having it otherwise would be misrepresentation of package origin.
> 
> If "single account" can do that (that would be a surprise), I'd
> appreciate a link to materials I can read up on the matter.

If you didn't want to show up as the owner you would need to use the other account once to register it, but after that just grant your normal user access and use that for day-to-day releases.

--Noah

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