Dealing with name clashes in pypi

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sun May 22 17:23:59 EDT 2011


On 5/22/2011 2:34 PM, Patrick Sabin wrote:
> I wanted to register my project (epdb) in pypi. Unfortunately there
> already exists a project with the same name. It is not possible for me
> to change the name of the project, because I used it in multiple
> writings. Any ideas how I can deal with the situation? Is it possible to
> register a project under a different name in pypi than the actual
> project name?

I presume so. How would pypi know the 'actual' name?
However, there is a catalog sig list (mirrored as 
gmane.comp.python.catalog) where you might get specific suggestions on 
how to handle this.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy




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