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by sgarland 1082 days ago
Poetry works, but unfortunately it depends on Python and so it frequently breaks unless you’re very careful with your Python environment management.

Installed it with your system’s native version? Good luck getting it to spawn a venv in a newer version. Used a Homebrew version? When it updates, Poetry breaks. Using asdf? Everything breaks, somehow.

I recently tried pipx and have hope that this will persist.

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True, that's why they recommend installing Poetry either via their installer or using pipx, as you did.

pipx and pip's externally-managed-environment should help mitigate a lot of the broken environment issues. I use them too.