[kojiromike]

I do think we're at a cusp where the poetry adoption rate may increase.

I avoided poetry for years because it doesn't have an option to skip the lockfile. We build images, so our dependencies are frozen anyway. (Now that we use dependabot, I'm willing to have a lockfile that's automated.)

I track Python packaging changes carefully, updating from procedural setup.py, declarative setup.cfg, versioning through setuptools-scm and now PEP517 and pyproject.toml.

But even now, Python ships with setuptools, pip and venv, and a system like poetry is not really a necessity.

But if you want convenient virtualenv management, editable installs _and_ PEP517, then you probably need poetry. I haven't found another system that can do all three.