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I've actually backed away from Poetry after some really bad experiences.

When it works, it's damn near perfect.

When it doesn't work, and that usually involves a problem with a downstream dependency that isn't technically Poetry's fault, it's a massive hassle and sometimes impossible to manually override.

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I went from Pipenv to Poetry and then back to Pipenv after encountering an infinite loop in Poetry's solver on multiple separate occasions.

I've submitted pull requests to projects when that happens. Not many yet, but all of them have been accepted in less than a week's time. People should do this and then the problem would eventually vanish.

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