Poetry

Same old

• as with many so-called modern tools, solutions take a back seat to gloss
  • composability also suffers

Install

• recommended install of poetry itself is to a venv (makes sense) but you must not activate that venv
  • this violates the principle of least astonishment, especially when poetry then breezily installs app requirements into its own venv

Solution

• install poetry command using motivate -S poetry where motivate is provided by venvpool
  • the poetry command will the create/use a suitable venv for itself just-in-time
  • you can specify a particular version e.g. motivate -S poetry==2.0.1
    • use -f to overwrite existing command