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by di 1097 days ago
> An example of this is that PyPI just got the ability to namespace packages.

You're thinking of organizations, which are not namespaces: https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2023-04-23-introducing-pypi-orga...

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Right, but to an average developer, organizations look and feel very much like namespaces.

LWN even used namespaces in the title of the article describing the feature, which doesn’t help the confusion: https://lwn.net/Articles/930509/

That article is about the packaging summit talk on introducing namespaces, not about organizations. In fact, when talking about organizations, it explicitly says:

> But support for namespaces is not part of the new feature.