[FridgeSeal]

Am I misunderstanding Poetry? Because it seems to me more suited as something for packaging your python code up ready to be pushed to Pypi? As in, starting up a project creates an init.py, and a python file referencing distutils: neither of which I need or want to do if I'm writing an app to go into a docker container.

[kissgyorgy]

The first use case is actually handling project dependencies. If I remember correctly, it couldn't build packages at the first time, so the "build" subcommand was introduced only later. It's the same type of package manager (with lock file) as other languages already had like Cargo, Bundler or NPM.