derrod
Interest in publishing on pypi as "legendary", at least an alias?
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Occasionally, people try to pip install legendary instead of pip install legendary-gl. Currently this gets them some error message (which is a fairly good state of affairs, but it could be even better).
Describe the solution you'd like
Since legendary exists as an empty package on pypi, we should get that from its author and point it to legendary-gl instead. Either the legendary-gl project can be published to both project names, or an "alias" package (a package that just installs the other package — see https://pypi.org/project/mysql/ for an example) can be created there that requires legendary-gl.
Describe alternatives you've considered
It's probably more desirable to simply publish legendary-gl to both pypi names (by slightly modifying whatever upload script you use), as then both packages will have the correct metadata, which probably will not happen with an alias (unless you keep uploading new versions of the metadata to the alias). The alias approach does have the advantage of being one-and-done, though. By the way, I've checked, and I see no pypi guideline or rule that either of these strategies would violate.
https://pypi.org/project/pypi-alias/ looks like a convenient way to make an alias package, if it happens to work on one's project structure. But it's also easy to create such an alias package manually.
Alternatively, the project could be moved to legendary and legendary-gl could be made an alias to that. Perhaps using https://github.com/simonw/pypi-rename for convenience.
Alternatively, the project could be moved to legendary, abandoning legendary-gl entirely, but this would be madness.
Additional context Last year, I had this idea and reached out to the listed maintainer of https://pypi.org/project/legendary/, who was receptive to the idea. I believe he even contacted you about it, and you he, but that apparently didn't result in any changes.
Even if the old maintainer is unreachable at this point (I haven't checked recently), there is a process to request effectively-unused names from pypi, if need be.
Yes I was contacted by the original author sometime last year, but life's been busy and I never got around to following-up on that.
