Use hatch, pdm or other standards-compliant packaging system

[dhdaines]

It's been over three years since PEP-621 was finalized and declared official, and Poetry still doesn't support standard packaging metadata in pyproject.toml: https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/pyproject-toml/

It's also slow and needlessly downloads many copies of the same package in order to satisfy its complex dependency resolution mechanism. Finally its version specifications, while they are friendly to JavaScript developers, are also not standards-compliant for Python and do not encourage best practices (see https://iscinumpy.dev/post/bound-version-constraints/)

The good news is you don't have to use poetry in order to get a user-friendly build system. There is hatch, for instance, which is used by some of our favorite packages like Starlette and Pydantic: https://hatch.pypa.io/latest/community/users/

There is also pdm which gives you a more npm-like experience while still being standards compliant: https://pdm-project.org/latest/

See python-poetry/roadmap#3 and python-poetry/poetry#3332

[dhdaines]

I'll close this as it is just my personal pet peeve, and poetry is fine for applications (not so much for libraries)