[mistahchris]

I have used plain nixpkgs, poetry2nix and mach-nix for packaging "real" projects. My biggest take away is that python packaging is a hot mess. This isn't exactly news that no one has heard before though.

The initial work for packaging a complicated python app is dominated by sorting through a lot of confusing errors, no matter what tool you use. poetry2nix and plain nix has been my best experience so far in python packaging though.

For my simple python packages, I'm using plain nix and flit, which has been the simplest. It's not feasible for python applications that need complicated dependency version resolving due to python dependency pinning though.

Here's the plain nix + flit example that I really like: https://git.sr.ht/~averagechris/deduper/tree/main/item/flake...

The poetry2nix projects I have worked with are closed source sadly so I can't link them.