On 4 August 2018 at 03:34, Chathika Gunaratne <chathika.gunara...@ucf.edu> wrote: > Dear Admin, > > > > 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 > > > > 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 . > > > > 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 -- Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/mm3/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/QL5V6LJN2ML624OEIXQTENQA5JS2F4JQ/
