It is both a dependency management tool and a packaging tool. Most of the reasons why I started this are detailed in the README (along with why I don’t want to use Pipenv) here: https://github.com/sdispater/poetry#why, but if you want to know the advantages of Poetry compared to existing tools, here are a few:
- Exhaustive dependency resolver
- Intuitive CLI (See https://poetry.eustace.io/docs/cli/)
- Emphasis on semantic versioning and constraint specification so that wildcard dependencies (`*`) will be considered bad practice
- Support for dependencies caret, tilde, wildcard, inequality and multiple requirements.
- Only one file: the standardised pyproject.toml which aims at being readable and clear.
- Mandatory compatible python versions specification.
Also, Poetry is Python 3.6+ only but can manage Python 2 projects without any problem.
And finally, Poetry is not completely stable yet so internally things can change but the CLI and commands are pretty much stable so backwards-incompatible changes should not happen too often.
In details:
oslo.utils==1.4.0 requires:
- pbr (>= 0.6, != 0.7, < 1.0) - oslo.i18n (>= 1.3)
So, poetry will take the latest version of oslo.i18n which requires:
- pbr (!= 2.1, >= 2.0)
Poetry will detect the conflict and backtrack oslo.i18n to version 2.1.0 which requires:
- pbr (>= 0.11, < 2.0)
This is compatible with the requirements of oslo.utils and pbr==0.11.1 will be installed
