I'm testing poetry and I was wondering if it is possible to install prebuilt packages from conda-forge, as cartopy without relying on conda (so keeping a 100% poetry process). I googled this a bit but the only way I found is to install poetry within a conda venv using pip and then installing from conda-forge using conda and then tweaking poetry files to make it aware of the conda venv so that the TOML is written properly.
Packages like cartopy are a pain to install if not from a prebuilt version, if possible I'd change my conda stack to poetry stack if something like poetry add [?conda-forge?] cartopy works
Thanks.
Not currently possible. Conda is a generic package manager, not just a Python package manager. Furthermore, there is no dedicated metadata in Conda packages to discriminate whether or not they are Python packages, which I think would be a prerequisite for Poetry being able to determine whether the Conda package is even valid for installation. Hence, what OP requests cannot be a thing, or at least would it be a major undertaking to make it one.
However, others have requested similar features, so someone hopeful for such functionality could subscribe to notifications on those, or follow the Feature Roadmap.