Installation Steps for Windows

[kevinrawal]

Issue Kind

Missing documentation

Existing Link

https://python-poetry.org/docs/#installing-manually

Description

In this section, the manual installation steps for Poetry are provided. However, users unfamiliar with macOS might find it confusing because, for Windows, the command should be Scripts\pip install -U pip setuptools instead of /bin/pip install -U pip setuptools. To improve clarity, we should update the instructions to explicitly include steps for Windows users.

[kevinrawal]

I want to work on this if it makes sense.

[swills1]

The documentation states the instructions are for Unix only, "As this is an advanced installation method, these instructions are Unix-only..."

The complete Windows equivalent would be;

# Step 1: Create a virtual environment
python -m venv %VENV_PATH%

# Step 2: Upgrade pip and setuptools
%VENV_PATH%\Scripts\pip install -U pip setuptools

# Step 3: Install poetry
%VENV_PATH%\Scripts\pip install poetry

In order to match the linked docs formatting;

python -m venv %VENV_PATH%
%VENV_PATH%\Scripts\pip install -U pip setuptools
%VENV_PATH%\Scripts\pip install poetry