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> See also: "Why not tell people to "simply" use pyenv, poetry or anaconda"

> https://www.bitecode.dev/p/why-not-tell-people-to-simply-use

Just curious: what are the downsides of poetry installed with pipx? The article mentions having to install poetry in another venv, but that's hardly an issue with pipx (you just add an 'x' after 'pip'), and installing pipx is as straight-forward as it can be.

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I eventually landed on pipx as fighting with Pyenv and Anaconda - via Miniconda - was an exercise in frustration. There's some mucking about in `$HOME/.local`, but this is mostly self-contained and not a huge chore to keep running.

Coming from the Homebrew/Ruby ecosystem - Hey @mikemcquaid - installing a entirely separate package manager just to deal with a few projects felt like the wrong thing to do.

Occasionally, I have still needed to compile Python myself in order to get things to work, which isn't guaranteed not to blow up w/ `brew`, but this has become far less common of late.

Agreed pipx solves a lot of packaging issues with no downside to speak of. Not just with poetry but also for tools like virtualenv, ruff and black and non-dev command line tools.

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