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Python has too many package managers
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It does its job well, but it doesn't do much more than that.
The main workflow w/ Pip is:
pip freeze > requirements.txt
so the next person can justpip install -r requirements.txt
instead of figuring out the requirementsrequirements.txt
manually to do updates, orpip freeze
again laterThere are some issues with this:
It's totally fine for one-off scripts and whatnot, but it gets pretty annoying when working across multiple repositories on a larger project (i.e. what I do at work with microservices).
Poetry improves this in a few ways:
There's a simple command to update all dependencies, and another command to try to add a dependency with minimal impact. It makes doing package updates a lot nicer, and I can easily compare direct dependencies between repositories since there's minimal noise in the pyproject.toml (great when doing bulk updates of some critical dependency).
TL;DR - pip is fine for small projects, alternatives are nice when dealing with large, complex projects because it gives you nicer control over dependencies.
Good to know, thank you for educating me!