Use of PyPI as a generic storage platform for binaries

I don’t think we (PyPI) have an official stance about this practice, but a quick temperature check among us suggested that we were generally aligned on:

If there’s a benefit to the Python community to having something distributed on PyPI, then that’s OK. If there’s not really a benefit to the Python community and someone is just using PyPI as an alternative to Homebrew, then that’s something that would probably be discouraged.

An official stance would likely be a reasonable addition to the AUP, but I think the above gives a pretty good guideline.

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