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Network issues are hidden by the install script

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Issue type
Bug
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Clearly specified
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Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
tooling

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Start in install-poetry.py at lines 356-369 and inspect how the installer captures and reports pip stdout and stderr. Reproduce the behavior with a slow or failing network configuration, then make sure pip output is visible as it occurs and process stages provide useful progress information.

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See https://github.com/python-poetry/install.python-poetry.org/blob/385616cd90816622a087450643fba971d3b46d8c/install-poetry.py#L356-L369

The above configuration means "stdout to pipe, stderr matches stdout".
If you're having network issues, this installer either completely obscures or significantly delays the reporting of said errors.
I never let it run it completion, but the network issues were significant enough that it was running for several hours (this was with default configuration, outside of being behind an org proxy + pip.conf pointing to an org mirror of pypi).

Personally, I think it's fine just to log to the console all stdout and stderrr from PIP as it happens.
Might be good to log individual process stages of the environment's creation as well (so you can know if you have other issues with your system).

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