PEP 752: Implicit namespaces for package repositories

[mikeshardmind (Michael H)]

I’m still very against string prefixes and placing corporations into a tier above volunteers, especially when that will increase the load on pypi admins/support. Full namespacing by user available to everyone would not have this issue, however, short of that

@steve.dower

I like this. pip install microsoft::azure-loganalytics or microsoft@azure-loganalytics might be hijacking the syntax from something potentially better, but interpreting it as “package must have this user as owner/maintainer” would likely be better than the whole namespace.

(copied from the related 755 discussion)

This sort of syntax would seem to be possible to support today, with no changes to existing or future packages (other than installers and other tools that interact with user provided package info), no extra administrative overhead, and it should prevent the class of issues that this claims to help avoid.