How to move configuration?

[BeyondEvil]

❯ poetry
Configuration file exists at /Users/jimbrannlund/Library/Application Support/pypoetry, reusing this directory.

Consider moving configuration to /Users/jimbrannlund/Library/Preferences/pypoetry, as support for the legacy directory will be removed in an upcoming release.
Poetry (version 1.2.2)

❯ cp -R /Users/jimbrannlund/Library/Application\ Support/pypoetry/ /Users/jimbrannlund/Library/Preferences/pypoetry

❯ mv /Users/jimbrannlund/Library/Application\ Support/pypoetry /Users/jimbrannlund/Library/Application\ Support/ppp

❯ poetry         
zsh: command not found: poetry

❯ uname -a                                                                                                         
Darwin F8-4D-89-71-75-73 21.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 21.4.0: Mon Feb 21 20:35:58 PST 2022; root:xnu-8020.101.4~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 arm64

Originally installed via the official installer and updated via poetry self update.

[BeyondEvil]

To fix I had to update the symbolic link under the new directory ~/Library/Preferences/pypoetry:

sh
❯ ls -la ~/Library/Preferences/pypoetry
total 16
drwxr-xr-x    6 jimbrannlund  staff   192 Oct 21 01:57 .
drwx------+ 271 jimbrannlund  staff  8672 Oct 21 02:04 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 jimbrannlund  staff     6 Oct 21 01:39 VERSION
-rw-------    1 jimbrannlund  staff   111 Oct 21 01:39 config.toml
lrwxr-xr-x    1 jimbrannlund  staff    64 Oct 21 01:57 poetry -> /Users/jimbrannlund/Library/Preferences/pypoetry/venv/bin/poetry
drwxr-xr-x    7 jimbrannlund  staff   224 Oct 21 01:39 venv

and under .local/bin:

❯ ls -la ~/.local/bin
lrwxr-xr-x   1 jimbrannlund  staff    64 Oct 21 02:00 poetry -> /Users/jimbrannlund/Library/Preferences/pypoetry/venv/bin/poetry

Be nice to have a function perform these steps for you. 😊

[neersighted]

Only the TOML files need to move -- Poetry broke because you moved the installation out from under it. We could introduce an automatic rename, but at the time the relocation was introduced there was an outcry against automatically moving a user's files. We might want to revisit that discussion.

[BeyondEvil]

Oh, I see, so only TOML needs to live under Preferences? The rest stays under Application Support?

[neersighted]

Correct!

[dariobig]

lots of words, but if I understand it correctly all that needs to be done is:

mv /Users/$USER/Library/Application\ Support/pypoetry/config.toml /Users/$USER/Library/Preferences/pypoetry

[jacklj]

@dariobig I think there's a typo 🙂, it should be:

mv /Users/$USER/Library/Application\ Support/pypoetry/config.toml /Users/$USER/Library/Preferences/pypoetry/config.toml

[slhck]

Shouldn't this be the exact opposite? For me Poetry 1.3.1 says:

Configuration file exists at /Users/werner/Library/Preferences/pypoetry, reusing this directory.
Consider moving TOML configuration files to /Users/werner/Library/Application Support/pypoetry ...

So the mv arguments should be swapped:

mkdir -p /Users/$USER/Library/Application\ Support/pypoetry
mv /Users/$USER/Library/Preferences/pypoetry/config.toml /Users/$USER/Library/Application\ Support/pypoetry/config.toml

That said, this really should be automated, or at least semi-automated, e.g. by printing the commands the user should run manually.

[lorenzwalthert]

@slhck with poetry 1.5, I also get that warning, and upon moving, changing a setting like

poetry config virtualenvs.options.no-setuptools false      

I get the warning again. I had to delete the whole directory in /Users/$USER/Library/Preferences/pypoetry to make the warning go away (not sure that has unintended side effects!).

[dimbleby]

flip-flopping is inherited from the platformdirs project, which preferred one thing in its 1.0 release, then another thing in its 2.0 release, and then reverted to the 1.0 behaviour in its 3.0 release.

Hopefully they've settled on the right answer now and you should just be able to do whatever it is that poetry 1.5 says.

[slhck]

I see, thanks. I ended up removing the config and reinstalling poetry completely.

[ajatkj]

I just moved config.toml from ~/Users/Preferences/pypoetry to ~/Users/Library/Application Support/pypoetry and it worked.

[xshapira]

@slhck Thank you!

This worked perfectly with Poetry 1.5.0:

mkdir -p /Users/$USER/Library/Application\ Support/pypoetry
mv /Users/$USER/Library/Preferences/pypoetry/config.toml /Users/$USER/Library/Application\ Support/pypoetry/config.toml

[camerondavison]

I had to do

mkdir -p "${HOME}/Library/Application Support/pypoetry/"
mv "${HOME}/Library/Preferences/pypoetry/"*.toml "${HOME}/Library/Application Support/pypoetry/"

I think that it would be nice to either prompt every once in a while or provide some command that would do the move for people. Then just say run "poetry self move-config" or something like that so that people do not have to search through github to figure out what they are supposed to do.

[hughperkins]

To save anyone else having to read through this llooonnnggg thread, note that I tried @camerondavison 's approach, and that worked for me.

Before using his approach:

After using his approach:

[hughperkins]

PS I agree with @camerondavison 's ideas of "I think that it would be nice to either prompt every once in a while or provide some command that would do the move for people. Then just say run "poetry self move-config" or something like that so that people do not have to search through github to figure out what they are supposed to do.".

I've created an issue for this at #8818

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