How to move configuration?

[BeyondEvil]

❯ poetry
Configuration file exists at /Users/jimbrannlund/Library/Application Support/pypoetry, reusing this directory.

Consider moving configuration to /Users/jimbrannlund/Library/Preferences/pypoetry, as support for the legacy directory will be removed in an upcoming release.
Poetry (version 1.2.2)

❯ cp -R /Users/jimbrannlund/Library/Application\ Support/pypoetry/ /Users/jimbrannlund/Library/Preferences/pypoetry

❯ mv /Users/jimbrannlund/Library/Application\ Support/pypoetry /Users/jimbrannlund/Library/Application\ Support/ppp

❯ poetry         
zsh: command not found: poetry

❯ uname -a                                                                                                         
Darwin F8-4D-89-71-75-73 21.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 21.4.0: Mon Feb 21 20:35:58 PST 2022; root:xnu-8020.101.4~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 arm64

Originally installed via the official installer and updated via poetry self update.

[BeyondEvil]

To fix I had to update the symbolic link under the new directory ~/Library/Preferences/pypoetry:

sh
❯ ls -la ~/Library/Preferences/pypoetry
total 16
drwxr-xr-x    6 jimbrannlund  staff   192 Oct 21 01:57 .
drwx------+ 271 jimbrannlund  staff  8672 Oct 21 02:04 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 jimbrannlund  staff     6 Oct 21 01:39 VERSION
-rw-------    1 jimbrannlund  staff   111 Oct 21 01:39 config.toml
lrwxr-xr-x    1 jimbrannlund  staff    64 Oct 21 01:57 poetry -> /Users/jimbrannlund/Library/Preferences/pypoetry/venv/bin/poetry
drwxr-xr-x    7 jimbrannlund  staff   224 Oct 21 01:39 venv

and under .local/bin:

❯ ls -la ~/.local/bin
lrwxr-xr-x   1 jimbrannlund  staff    64 Oct 21 02:00 poetry -> /Users/jimbrannlund/Library/Preferences/pypoetry/venv/bin/poetry

Be nice to have a function perform these steps for you. 😊

[neersighted]

Only the TOML files need to move -- Poetry broke because you moved the installation out from under it. We could introduce an automatic rename, but at the time the relocation was introduced there was an outcry against automatically moving a user's files. We might want to revisit that discussion.

[BeyondEvil]

Oh, I see, so only TOML needs to live under Preferences? The rest stays under Application Support?

[neersighted]

Correct!

[dariobig]

lots of words, but if I understand it correctly all that needs to be done is:

mv /Users/$USER/Library/Application\ Support/pypoetry/config.toml /Users/$USER/Library/Preferences/pypoetry

[jacklj]

@dariobig I think there's a typo 🙂, it should be:

mv /Users/$USER/Library/Application\ Support/pypoetry/config.toml /Users/$USER/Library/Preferences/pypoetry/config.toml

[slhck]

Shouldn't this be the exact opposite? For me Poetry 1.3.1 says:

Configuration file exists at /Users/werner/Library/Preferences/pypoetry, reusing this directory.
Consider moving TOML configuration files to /Users/werner/Library/Application Support/pypoetry ...

So the mv arguments should be swapped:

mkdir -p /Users/$USER/Library/Application\ Support/pypoetry
mv /Users/$USER/Library/Preferences/pypoetry/config.toml /Users/$USER/Library/Application\ Support/pypoetry/config.toml

That said, this really should be automated, or at least semi-automated, e.g. by printing the commands the user should run manually.