Dependency notation including the index URL

[uranusjr (Tzu-ping Chung)]

@sinoroc

What if PyPI allowed anyone to simply reserve a namespace such as myusername-* and/or myusername.* ? Is that possible? Wouldn’t that solve a big portion of such issues?

Personally I’m in favour of a solution along this line. There were multiple threads around this exact topic:

• Namespace support in pypi
• PyPI as a Project repository vs. Name registry (a.k.a. PyPI namesquatting, e.g. for Fedora packages) (more concrete)

The discussion has died down, but I think people are still interested in seeing that happen. The biggest roadblock is likely someone with enough incentives to drive the discussion forward.