Should PyPI deprecate .egg uploads?

[hugovk (Hugo van Kemenade)]

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Killing off the `egg=` fragment once and for all?

I’m proposing this to the packaging community, with the hopes of getting thoughts and feedback. I’m interested to hear what you all think! Background The egg= fragment is one of two ways to specify the name of a package in a requirement specifier that doesn’t “natively” contain the package name (e.g. a URL, where the base component of the URL may not match the project’s name). For example, here’s how you can tell pip that a URL requirement installs package foo: git+https://github.com/some-or…