Allow me to reproduce a comment that I made in /r/programming last week on this topic. I use pipenv in production and testing to simplify deployment on systems

Allow me to reproduce a comment that I made in /r/programming last week on this topic. I use pipenv in production and testing to simplify deployment on systems that don't natively support python 3.6+. When it works it is great. When it fails, or when the cli options fight each other and try to be smart but instead for a circular firing squad it is one of the most insanity inducing pieces of software I have ever used. Pipenv release have repeatedly broken CI builds for me for the past 3 months. I was so pissed with how bad it was about 9 months ago that I actually gave up trying to use it on my development machine and learned how to write gentoo ebuilds. On reflection it seems like the perfect tool for python -- if you stay on the happy path and only use it in BDFL APPROVED ways then it can be great, be woe to the fool who wanders from the light into madness.