Consider leaving poetry

[cdcarter]

I've been trying to give poetry a fair chance, but keep running into weird issues. Poetry-setup seems to be interfering with ideal usage (try pip install poetry poetry-setup && poetry install in a fresh venv now 😢 ), but we want that for pip install. I can spin out an issue about that but...

So, despite pyproject.toml being something I really like (and the configuration philosophy of poetry in general being very appealing), the actual implementation and ecosystem feels not-quite-there.

It seems like there are three major players right now:

• pip/setuptools
• poetry
• pipenv

Only pip has standard library "support". The other two are not quite-competing, and have much lower adoption rates. They both have bootstrap concerns (especially on our deployment hosts).

I don't mind adopting new technologies, but this edge feels bloody. Losing the additional dev deps is just a little win.

I'll ask for actual feedback on this after the holiday, and give myself a few more days for poetry to convince me...