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Provide some lever for controlling installer error logging in CI environments

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
cli, tooling

Research direction

Start by locating the installer script and the code that writes poetry-installer-error*.log. Review how installer failures are currently reported, then check the project's existing environment-variable handling. Done means CI users have a documented way to route installer errors to stderr instead of relying only on the log file, with coverage for the chosen behavior.

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Feature Request

Provide some kind of environment variables to control the Poetry installer's logging. The installer script installs to a poetry-installer-error*.log file, but in CI environments this can be painful to debug. There should be some kind of lever to pull to get poetry to output the installation errors directly to stderr.

Many packages automatically detect the CI variable (standard among the CI providers from what I can tell) to automatically change configuration parameters.

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