Add poetry to `winget` for Windows installation

[alexchandel]

Please add poetry to the winget package manager.

Currently, installing poetry requires pasting an install script into a powershell Window, and possibly manually modifying the PATH. This is inconvenient at best, and difficult to guide another person to do. winget is Microsoft's open source package manager and already has thousands of packages, including all versions of Python.

[alexchandel]

Impossible-to-debug issues that others have include:

PS C:\windows\system32> (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://install.python-poetry.org/ -UseBasicParsing).Content | py -      Retrieving Poetry metadata
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\shivam.vedant\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\urllib\request.py", line 1348, in do_open
    h.request(req.get_method(), req.selector, req.data, headers,
  File "C:\Users\shivam.vedant\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\http\client.py", line 1286, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers, encode_chunked)
  File "C:\Users\shivam.vedant\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\http\client.py", line 1332, in _send_request
    self.endheaders(body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
  File "C:\Users\shivam.vedant\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\http\client.py", line 1281, in endheaders
    self._send_output(message_body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
  File "C:\Users\shivam.vedant\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\http\client.py", line 1041, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "C:\Users\shivam.vedant\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\http\client.py", line 979, in send
    self.connect()
  File "C:\Users\shivam.vedant\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\http\client.py", line 1458, in connect
    self.sock = self._context.wrap_socket(self.sock,
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\shivam.vedant\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\ssl.py", line 517, in wrap_socket
    return self.sslsocket_class._create(
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\shivam.vedant\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\ssl.py", line 1075, in _create
    self.do_handshake()
  File "C:\Users\shivam.vedant\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\ssl.py", line 1346, in do_handshake
    self._sslobj.do_handshake()
ssl.SSLCertVerificationError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1002)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 945, in <module>
  File "<stdin>", line 923, in main
  File "<stdin>", line 524, in run
  File "<stdin>", line 786, in get_version
  File "<stdin>", line 847, in _get
  File "C:\Users\shivam.vedant\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\urllib\request.py", line 216, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\shivam.vedant\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\urllib\request.py", line 519, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\shivam.vedant\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\urllib\request.py", line 536, in _open
    result = self._call_chain(self.handle_open, protocol, protocol +
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\shivam.vedant\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\urllib\request.py", line 496, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
             ^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\shivam.vedant\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\urllib\request.py", line 1391, in https_open
    return self.do_open(http.client.HTTPSConnection, req,
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\shivam.vedant\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\urllib\request.py", line 1351, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)
urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1002)>

How is the average user to know how to debug this? And this is the primary supported installation method!

[devmcp]

This would be great. Currently the most straightforward path seems to be to install scoop so we can install pipx so we can install poetry.

Is a winget installer to install poetry more directly feasible or likely in the near term?

[alexchandel]

A year later, Poetry is going to become unused abandonware because its installation method is so horrible.

[vikhik]

One of the reasons I can't support poetry for our teams is because installation can't be easily automated/taken care of.

It's a big blocker for us.