It is possible and desirable to skip lock file creation?

[Rob Dimsdale-Zucker]

Running poetry install creates a poetry.lock file. Typically this file is checked in and already exists when this buildpack runs. If it doesn't exist, however, this buildpack will create it.

It isn't actually required for poetry run (or running python some-file.py via a Procfile), as we already populate the specific versions of the application dependencies in the virtual environment, so this could potentially be an unnecessary step.

Can we skip the generation? Is this a desirable step?

[Rob Dimsdale-Zucker]

There is currently no option in poetry to skip generation of the poetry.lock file during poetry install.

Also, running poetry run on a project without a lockfile doesn't seem to add any time.

So, in conclusion, it is not possible or desirable to skip lock file creation.