Not the parent but pipenv is decent, poetry is even better:

- clear separation of dev and production dependencies - lock file with the current version of all dependencies for reproducible builds (this is slightly difference than the dependency specification) - no accidental global installs because you forgot to activate a virtual environment - (not sure if supported by pip) allows installing libraries directly from a git repo, which is very useful if you have internal libraries - easier updates

We distribute a CLI tool (dbt), so we’re migrating to distributing using the following mechanisms:

1. curl script that installs dbt for end users

2. zipped snapshots for dbt Cloud, the SaaS hosted version of dbt

Eventually we want to create Docker images from 2, but we’re not there yet.