Reflections on Poetry

[etijskens]

poetry install micc fails see issue 12 and nobody reacts to my poetry issue 1492
There are also many open issues and pull requests, as well as criticism

I feel there is little chance that if I succeed in finding and resolving the bug, the solution will be absorbed in poetry any time soon, so I'd rather go for a workaround.

On the other hand, poetry has a very simple mechanism for custom builds, see issue 1351 and investing time in setuptools is perhaps wasted.

[etijskens]

There isn't a post-install hook. Moreover, it is unlikely to come ... See Support for custom commands and functions
The conclusion is that I will put the adoption of poetry in the fridge until it has matured and clearly shows fitness for our purposes.

[etijskens]

now that #12 if fixed, I decided to give poetry another chance.

• poetry install works
• poetry publish does too!
  let's see if we can publish projects with binary extensions...

[etijskens]

poetry doesn't play well with poetry
pip install micc installed in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/bin/micc while Conda environment test-micc was activated.
have to refrain from Conda then.

[etijskens]

I picked up this link from PYCODER'S WEEKLY. It describes a python development environment and kind of a workflow based on pyenv, poetry and pipx. The author, Jacob Kaplan-Moss is a co-creator of Django, so I expect this to be really well functioning.

[etijskens]

Poetry install is not working well:

cd /path/to/et-micc
poetry install
micc -p ../ws-micc/foo create
...
AttributeError: module 'et_micc' has no attribute 'cli'

can be solved by adding the line
from et_micc import cli
to /path/to/et-micc/.venv/bin/micc
Note that this is automatically a development install: the venv automatically links into the package directory which solves another problem we had with poetry!

[etijskens]

now that micc-build is separated from micc, and binary extensions are always built locally, there is no need for publishing binary extensions. poetry 1.0.0b4 does very well now.