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  1. …management and packaging tool) where they introduced sporadic failures to people's CI/CD systems: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/pull/6297
    comment by usrme · 2025-08-28 · in The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami
  2. …management tools, not just uv. For example, here's the bug in poetry regarding this issue: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/6409 As I understand it, recent versions of PyTorch have made this process somewhat easier, so maybe…
    comment by shawnz · 2025-03-13 · in Switching from Pyenv to Uv
  3. …version overrides [1]. uv's support for overrides seems serviceable if unsophisticated [2][3]. [1] https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/697 [2] https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/resolution/#dependency-ov... [3]…
    comment by code_biologist · 2025-02-18 · in A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate
  4. …in learning about Rye/uv than in revisiting Poetry, at least for the projects I've worked on. [1] https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/6409 [2] https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/7748
    comment by arthur-st · 2024-07-09 · in Rye: A Hassle-Free Python Experience
  5. …universal resolution work properly with PyTorch, or does it suffer from the same issue as Poetry? https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/6409 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39257501
    comment by smnrchrds · 2024-07-09 · in Rye: A Hassle-Free Python Experience
  6. Has anyone else been paying attention to how hilariously hard it is to package PyTorch in poetry? https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/6409
    comment by RockRobotRock · 2024-02-16 · in Uv: Python packaging in Rust
  7. …only recently adding it back in. Not sure where I would stand if I fully investigated it tho. [0] https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/6409#issuecom...
    comment by irjustin · 2024-02-05 · in Boring Python: dependency management (2022)
  8. …is pretty limited. You cannot install PyTorch with it for example, and the developers do not care: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/6409 So basically the single most exciting thing to ever happen to the ecosystem isn’t…
    comment by doctorpangloss · 2024-02-05 · in Boring Python: dependency management (2022)
  9. …helpful to read about the author's experience with these other tools, such as PDM and Hatch. [0] https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/2740 [1] https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/2184 [2]…
    comment by marbs · 2024-01-16 · in Python Packaging, One Year Later: A Look Back at 2023 in Python Packaging
  10. No, use PDM. ;) The main problem with Poetry is that it still does not support PEP 621. [0] [0] https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/3332
    comment by BerislavLopac · 2024-01-16 · in Python Packaging, One Year Later: A Look Back at 2023 in Python Packaging
  11. …out this thread[1] on the Kafkaesque nightmare that is trying to install PyTorch with Poetry. [1]: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/6409
    comment by kvnhn · 2023-11-11 · in Python environment setup seems complicated and unsolvable
  12. …and don't launch something that is GitHub only and centralized and faun over GitHub's security. https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/7940#issuecom... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35646436
    comment by benatkin · 2023-08-04 · in PSF Hires PyPI Safety and Security Engineer
  13. …Fixing setuptools would be highest yield. Other package tooling can't install PyTorch, for example: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/6409#issuecom... . PyTorch itself is wonkily packaged. But I'm sure they have a good reason…
    comment by doctorpangloss · 2023-07-19 · in Use pytorch2+cu118 with ADA hardware for 50%+ speedup
  14. …the road if the sperficial similarities persuade you to apply one tool’s paradigm to another. [1]: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/tree/0.1.0#why
    comment by uranusjr · 2023-06-14 · in React, but in Python
  15. …for poor implementation on behalf of Poetry. See for yourself the number of torch related issues: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues?q=is%3Aissue+... https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues?q=is%3Aissue+... Not a week…
    comment by KRAKRISMOTT · 2023-06-09 · in DeepFilterNet: Noise supression using deep filtering
  16. …the dependency host's HTML like a RSS reader because pypi doesn't automatically store metadata. https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/6409
    comment by KRAKRISMOTT · 2023-04-24 · in Rye: Flask author's new project for Python bootstrapping
  17. For what it’s worth, the Poetry version solver works in the same way as Dart’s: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/blob/286f4ddb70394dd...
    comment by DougBTX · 2023-01-08 · in Classifying Python virtual environment workflows
  18. …There's no breaking changes, it's a finished product. Also, I don't want my CI to fail randomly. https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/pull/6297 Look at the number of issues in poetry. Some things are not backwards compat, some are…
    comment by tomwojcik · 2023-01-07 · in Classifying Python virtual environment workflows
  19. https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/blob/a613347bf0a9fd7...
    comment by orra · 2022-12-21 · in A not so unfortunate sharp edge in Pipenv
  20. I really hope not. I used it for a while, but the “wontfix” attitude (e.g. PEP440 related issues: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/6013 , or the issues with pytorch cpu packages) made me go back to regular pip and use “pip…
    comment by woodson · 2022-12-15 · in Python 3.11 Delivers
  21. Poetry is currently not useful for extensions: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/2740
    comment by filmor · 2022-11-20 · in ABI compatibility in Python: How hard could it be?
  22. …favorite package manager to use their package" stuff. [1] https://peps.python.org/pep-0660/ [2] https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/34#issuecomme... [3] https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/t3p3ub/comment/hyum...
    comment by emacs28 · 2022-07-29 · in How to create a Python package in 2022
  23. https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/blob/master/src/poet... The process spawned by `poetry shell` is a terminal emulator driven by the pexpect and cleo packages. It hijacks and proxies the user's keystrokes before sending them to the…
    comment by ak217 · 2022-07-15 · in Freezing Requirements with Pip-Tools
  24. …independently update the top level requirements to conflict with each other. The related issue, https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/496 , has been open for 4 years with no movement. The other issue with Poetry is that it uses…
    comment by ak217 · 2022-07-15 · in Freezing Requirements with Pip-Tools
  25. …to find poetry and the reason for existing which is exactly my experience. That was 2-3 years ago. https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry#why Combine this with asdf and it aligns with most other languages. asdf + yarn/npm = javascript…
    comment by squar1sm · 2022-06-06 · in No-op statements syntactically valid only since Python X.Y
  26. …uses under-the-hood ) [1] https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools#cross-environment-usag... [2] https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/
    comment by mitchhentges · 2022-05-31 · in Show HN: Pip-compile-cross-platform Python dependency pinning but cross-platform
  27. Yeah, Poetry is definitely slow. This issue covers things: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/2094
    comment by JimDabell · 2022-05-29 · in Making pip installs a little less slow
  28. …whether it would be desirable to have a config file option for the --no-root command line flag: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/2458
    comment by JackC · 2022-04-28 · in Show HN: Hatch 1.0.0 – Modern, extensible Python project management
  29. …creator, we also share strong opinions on pipenv :) [1]: https://discuss.python.org/t/5243/12 [2]: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/4710#issuecom...
    comment by ofek · 2022-04-28 · in Show HN: Hatch 1.0.0 – Modern, extensible Python project management
  30. …incompatible with poetry as poetry has a non-standard interpretation of local package version tags. https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/4231 Is one issue. If you even transitively depend on pytorch poetry will break and you will…
    comment by Mehdi2277 · 2021-12-24 · in Show HN: Jupyter kernel using Poetry for reproducible Python package management
  31. I can't recommend using Poetry in production - I've had massive headaches with it due to https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/697 Basically if you have two dependencies that depend on the same package, but depend on different…
    comment by tfehring · 2021-12-07 · in Django 4.0
  32. …but I think it's the one major flaw in the otherwise giant step that poetry takes forward. [1] https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/697
    comment by code_biologist · 2021-10-20 · in You shouldn't invoke setup.py directly
  33. 990 open issues… bugs going back to 2018 still open… https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues Please help me understand why I would want to lock specific versions of libraries in my Python projects. I’ve worked extensively with…
    comment by jtdev · 2021-07-05 · in Python Best Practices for a New Project in 2021
  34. …even used it for a while) until you hit a weird bug and find that’s it’s one of the 989 open issues https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues So it’s back to plain old venv + requirements.txt for me
    comment by d4rkp4ttern · 2021-07-05 · in Python Best Practices for a New Project in 2021
  35. …alternatives. I have great hopes for the upcoming versions, specially the "poetry bundle" command: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/1992 See full roadmap here: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/1856 Kudos to…
    comment by fermigier · 2021-06-28 · in Ask HN: Let's compare Python dependency managers
  36. …cache of metadata to use instead of Pypi directly. For discussion on the topic, see this GH issue: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/2094#issuecom... This is now fixed, but for most of Poetry's life, it took some tricks to…
    comment by the__alchemist · 2021-06-19 · in Ask HN: Why Poetry did not become a mainstream package manager for Python?
  37. …which obviously, no one can actually operationalize. Here is a very old issue about this: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/697#issuecomm... There is some movement, and acknowledgment that a tool is useless if you can't take…
    comment by b33j0r · 2021-06-19 · in Ask HN: Why Poetry did not become a mainstream package manager for Python?
  38. Poetry does need help. I created a thread here: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/4160 my primary concern poetry's development stagnating due to natural causes while many projects rely on it. switching costs are high. moving…
    comment by tony · 2021-06-19 · in Ask HN: Why Poetry did not become a mainstream package manager for Python?
  39. …you're painting it to be (yet). It's definitely not on par with Cargo, or maybe even npm. [1]: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/3765 [2]: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/3425
    comment by remram · 2021-04-08 · in How to make a Python package in 2021
  40. …even though awscli will operate happily with a more broad set of requirements than it declares. [1] https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/697 [2] https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/697#issuecomm...
    comment by acidbaseextract · 2021-02-21 · in The modern packager’s security nightmare
  41. What does Julia bring over Python Poetry package manager ? https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry What about modularity, concretely?
    comment by The_rationalist · 2021-02-15 · in Julia 1.6: what has changed since Julia 1.0?
  42. …and verify values when constructing the requests session to download the packages. There's a fix in https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/pull/3490 , but it has been pending review for several months. There's a second issue (this one…
    comment by gooseyard · 2021-02-11 · in A Poetic Apology: Or Why Should You Use Poetry to Manage Python Dependencies
  43. …this situation (and a clear understanding of why it's necessary baked into the docs!) (3) [1] https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/697 [2] https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8076 [3] https://classic.yarnpkg.com/en/docs/selective-v…
    comment by macNchz · 2021-02-10 · in A Poetic Apology: Or Why Should You Use Poetry to Manage Python Dependencies
  44. …' /setup.py' > setup.py && pip3 install --prefix="${HOME}/.local/" --editable . More details here: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/34#issuecomme...
    comment by abraxaz · 2021-02-10 · in Pattern matching accepted for Python
  45. …of Rust's Cargo which does support it despite the Rust ecosystem being good with versioning [1] [1] https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/697
    comment by epage · 2021-02-09 · in Dependency on rust removes support for a number of platforms
  46. …imperfections in its use. [0] https://cryptography.io/en/latest/api-stability.html#version... [1] https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/697 [2] https://xkcd.com/1172/
    comment by epage · 2021-02-09 · in Dependency on rust removes support for a number of platforms
  47. …means we're stuck on 1.0.10 for now (e.g. mypy, which had a fix merged but not yet released, see https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/3094 ). The poetry lock file also seems to get ignored for git dependencies. Say I depend on…
    comment by aden1ne · 2020-12-01 · in Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver
  48. …data engineering & ML), Poetry is unbearably slow[^1]. Great interface/workflow, though. [1] https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/2094
    comment by abrazensunset · 2020-11-30 · in Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver
  49. …well on its way to be a very popular tool. Before using it at work, we are waiting on waiting on https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/2610 (alternate repository not getting used for transitive dependencies) and ideally this…
    comment by skrtskrt · 2020-11-30 · in Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver
  50. …well on its way to be a very popular tool. Before using it at work, we are waiting on waiting on https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/2610 (alternate repository not getting used for transitive dependencies) and ideally this…
    comment by skrtskrt · 2020-11-19 · in Changes to the pip dependency resolver in 20.3