5 alternatives to poetry
python-poetry/poetry — Python packaging and dependency management made easy (34,317 stars, MIT, auth).
These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 130 licence-cleared components from python-poetry/poetry itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | astral-sh/uv | 7.2 | Apache-2.0 | 91,481 |
| 2 | composer/composer | 7.8 | MIT | 29,568 |
| 3 | pypa/hatch | 6.7 | MIT | 7,247 |
| 4 | pyenv/pyenv | 2.4 | MIT | 45,180 |
| 5 | gomods/athens | 4.6 | MIT | 4,815 |
The alternatives in detail
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Modern, extensible Python project managementscore 6.7/10 · MIT permissive · 7,247 stars · 126 components · search them
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Simple Python version management
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A Go module datastore and proxyscore 4.6/10 · MIT permissive · 4,815 stars · 148 components · search them
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