[Pre-RFC]: Packages as Namespaces

[kornel]

If you skip mapping between slash and hyphen, that's similar to this proposal:

Namespacing on Crates.io

Another proposal: minimalist approach. A namespaced crate name like naftulikay/rand is only one character different from the current pseudo-namespacing done on crates.io like naftulikay-rand. So we could have backwards-compatible namespace approach by allowing users to register a prefix like naftulikay-*, so that only owner of the prefix can publish new crates with that prefix. While this doesn’t address squatting, it does add namespaces in a backwards-compatible way following existing naming…