Replace pipenv? about hknweb

[jameslzhu]

Is conda a viable alternative?

@adithyaj

[jameslzhu]

May also consider hatch, which appears not to use any other "special" files other than requirements.txt and setup.py (which are already used by pip).

However it doesn't manage dependencies, a major downside.

[jvperrin]

I think this setup is decent, although I'm biased since I'm used to how it's set up and it originated where I currently work :)

The upside is that it's fast, easy to work with once you know how it works, has cached venvs, a lockfile of sorts (pinned requirements in a file suitable for deploys anyway), etc. However, the downsides are that it needs at least 4 files (requirements-minimal.txt for unpinned prod dependencies like anything the application actually imports, requirements.txt for pinned prod dependencies generated from requirements-minimal.txt, requirements-dev-minimal.txt for unpinned dev dependencies like anything used for testing and pre-commit hooks, and finally requirements-dev.txt for pinned dev dependencies). It also can be confusing to know what to edit starting out, and it needs some tools to work with it (like upgrade-requirements to easily update pinned requirements). I've found it works pretty well overall and addresses all my concerns around dependencies and pinning though, which is nice, and it's also something the OCF uses.

[bri25yu]

Resolved by #272