I really wish they'd give podman-compose some love.
Can you expand on this a bit? What is an example of something you'd like another player to do that RH isn't doing?
podman compose is effectively 90% finished too. It's just annoying seeing some roughness around the edges.
I'm not convinced it would be all that hard to make it better than docker compose, either.
For me the problem with podman-compose is that it will be continuously chasing the moving target of what docker-compose is able to do. Hence there will forever be developers trying it out, finding out that "it doesn't work" and, in wanting to just get on with their jobs, going back to docker-compose... and in the process filing "podman" away in that little box in the back of their head of stuff that doesn't work.
Implementing the docker API seems to have worked out much better, I suppose it too is a moving target but it seems to move slower; I can at least download some demo docker-compose.yaml files and process them with docker-compose talking to podman and they worked out of the box!
I'm still using it, because the last time I had time to mess with it, docker-compose still required a lot of fiddling to work with podman. From the other replies to your comment, I guess it must have gotten better, so I'll guess I'll try docker-compose again soon.
Not sure how that is relevant to podman-compose?