poetry add requirements.txt

[jonnyhoff]

Issue Kind

Brand new capability

Description

Having the ability to run poetry add requirements.txt would greatly improve developer experience.

I use poetry for all my projects but when working on other people's projects, I've found that it's a little bit cumbersome to have to wangle poetry add command to pass the requirements file.

Impact

Developer Experience.

Workarounds

cat requirements.txt | xargs poetry add

OR

poetry add $(cat requirements.txt)

[dimbleby]

Those workarounds do not look cumbersome.

Previously rejected at #8837

[abn]

I'm afraid I agree that the workarounds might be the right solution here :)

As stated in #8837, this (if it actually needs to be done) might be a case for a plugin more so than poetry itself.

The maintenance burden for a feature like this does not make much sense at the moment. While the feature itself might be trivial (#famouslastwords), the ongoing support of it might trigger more nuanced fixes and improvements that deter time from areas already requiring maintenance. This is the reason we eventually spun out the export command to a plugin.

In any case, I'm closing this for now as this won't be implemented as things stand.