[Distutils] Outstanding questions for PEP 541: Package Index Name Retention

[Chris Barker - NOAA Federal]

> I don’t know how much we can or should define “being used”. For instance,
every package in existence is going to be downloaded via mirroring, so we
can’t go by pure download counts (and some mirrors just use pip to do their
downloading) and we’re going to need to interpret the download counts to
some degree to try and gauge “usage”.

One idea— create a couple of “dummy” packages that do absolutely nothing.
Then the download counts on those would give you a baseline for “downloaded
but not used”

-CHB

Ultimately I think the underlying question we’re answering is whether names
on PyPI are a community good or a personal good, and this PEP more or less
states they are a community good


Which they absolutely are. PyPi is a community project — the names on pypi
are just that — names on pypi. If you don’t want to be part of that
community, you can use any name you want.

-CHB
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