On: Ask HN: Why Poetry did not become a mainstream package manager for Python?

[sonthonax]

But you still need a pyproject.toml, which is just a setup.py in a different form.

One gripe with pyproject.toml is that I can’t do editable installs (i.e ‘pip install -e path/to/package/‘) with it. Highly annoying when trying to patch packages.

[miguendes → sonthonax]

You actually can but it's not documented I guess. I remember finding it when I dug the source code.

[tool.poetry.dependencies] my-package = { "path" = "path/to/package", develop = true }

This way you can patch my-package and poetry will always install the latest state of it.

[sonthonax → miguendes]

But I can’t do it from pip to another poetry package. I have to be using poetry for it.

[miguendes → sonthonax]

Ah got it, I see what you mean now. In cases like this I had to build the wheel and install it which is not great indeed.

[nromiun → sonthonax]

True. I guess I just prefer pyproject.toml, it is definitely more minimal for my use cases.