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If it wasn't so opinionated it might have been more successful.

Just one example: you want your virtualenvs to be created in ~/.virtualenvs so that pipenv is a drop-in replacement for virtualenvwrapper+pip? Tough luck for you, Kenneth Reitz doesn't think that's how it should be done.

At least 3 or 4 times some issue I've wanted resolved I found in the issue tracker with the last message "we'll have to check with kennethreitz42 whether we're allowed to change that" and then silence for a year.

It could still catch up with poetry, but from what I've seen there's a fundamental mindset difference in how change requests are approached between pipenv and poetry.



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