pyprojectx as alternative to install poetry

[houbie]

Pyprojectx provides a wrapper script that bootstraps the installation of all the development tools used in a project. As such it has the ability to install poetry on demand.

The benefits:

• you can clone and build a project without having to install poetry first
• you can lock the poetry version: this makes your project immune for breaking changes in poetry; as developer you don't need to install/select the required version
• projects become beginner-friendly as nothing needs to be set up

Pyprojectx has a poetry initializer: it installs poetry locally inside the project and starts poetry init

pyprojectx itself shows how you can build a poetry project in a minute:

git clone https://github.com/pyprojectx/pyprojectx.git
cd pyprojectx
./pw build

IMO it makes sense to add this to the documentation.

[finswimmer]

Hello @houbie,

thanks for you suggestion. We already provide instruction for 3 common ways. Adding yet another description would have only little benefit for users.

As you seem to be one of the maintainer of pyprojectx, I would invite you to promote it in the github discussion section. I transfer this issue to it.

fin swimmer

[DetachHead]

i personally have been using pyprojectx to install poetry and it's been a far more pleasant experience than using the poetry install script, pipx, or any other global installation method. until i found out about it i regularly ended up with a busted installation due to the flakiness of its setup script (eg. #2449 (comment))

for what it's worth, pdm's install instructions include pyprojectx, i think it would be good if poetry did as well.