Can you really build packages using solely Conda?

As far as my understanding goes, conda focuses on providing virtual environments for interactive use, but to build and distribute a package on conda forge, you still need to rely on setuptools/distutils.

My impression here is that Poetry aims more at _replacing_ the pip + setuptools toolchain. Users of your package could still install it using conda, if relevant. It seems a bit limited in what it can do at the build step, unfortunately, so it is not a replacement yet.

Coming from the Java world, I pass my days dreaming of a "maven for python", and this project definitely goes into that direction. I will definitely keep it on my radar.