Randy Döring

Do you have a minimal example to reproduce the issue (pyproject.toml and poetry.lock)?

I do not think that we want to add special handling for long paths on Windows because it makes things complicated. For example, iirc you have to pay attention that...

For future reference: If you have issues with long paths on Windows, you can [Enable Long Paths in Windows](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/maximum-file-path-limitation?tabs=registry#enable-long-paths-in-windows-10-version-1607-and-later) or configure Poetry to use locations with shorter paths.

> But for the config, should we still use `installer.max-retries`? I think it's still valid name right? Or we add `solver.max-retries` ? Good question. Thinking about it, `installer.max-retries` might have...

> Please reopen #3219 to close the duplicate of #9551 I do not think reopening #3219 makes sense because it is was closed a long time ago. Generally, we do...

> Does this PR need any change? I think all my comments have been addressed but I still have to review the changes. I won't have time for the next...

@gaileyleseman If you are still interested in this, please fix the expected behavior in the issue description.

Looks good so far. We should additionally define what happens when running `poetry version dev` on a non-dev release? (We could just fail with a comprehensive error message if we...

Yes, this avoids the issue. The longer I think about it, the more I like your suggestion.

I think it is not intended.