Unable to install older versions of poetry to avoid python 3.14 dependency

[burgaard]

Output of brew config

kim@Mac-128 context-indexer % brew config
HOMEBREW_VERSION: 4.6.19
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
HEAD: 8f6719274133c5bcc24c058c5a6bcbb3b0cd48b3
Last commit: 32 hours ago
Branch: stable
Core tap JSON: 27 Oct 15:39 UTC
Core cask tap JSON: 27 Oct 15:39 UTC
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /opt/homebrew
HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS: []
HOMEBREW_FORBID_PACKAGES_FROM_PATHS: set
HOMEBREW_MAKE_JOBS: 8
Homebrew Ruby: 3.4.5 => /opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/vendor/portable-ruby/3.4.5/bin/ruby
CPU: octa-core 64-bit arm_ibiza
Clang: 17.0.0 build 1700
Git: 2.39.5 => /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/git
Curl: 8.7.1 => /usr/bin/curl
macOS: 15.6-arm64
CLT: 16.4.0.0.1.1747106510
Xcode: N/A
Rosetta 2: false

Output of brew doctor

Your system is ready to brew.

Description of issue

The 2.2.x versions of poetry depend on 3.14 which came out very recently. I found version 2.1.4 of the poetry package depends on python 3.13, but brew install 'poetry@2.1.4' doesn't work and when I brew search poetry it doesn't list any versions.

I've poked around the homebrew site and SO answers for a while, but I just gave up and installed python and poetry without home-brew because I need to get things moving.

Relevant casks

poetry

[botantony]

Homebrew has strict requirements on versioned formulae, so unless 2.1.x is the LTS version we won't add it: https://docs.brew.sh/Versions
I'd recommend migrating to Python 3.14, but if it is not an option, you can either use brew extract or install Poetry via Python-specific tools like pipx:

brew uninstall poetry # Or you can use `brew unlink poetry` to temporarily remove brewed Poetry from $PATH
brew install pipx
pipx install poetry==2.1.4

Although I am not that familiar with Python ecosystem, maybe @branchvincent could help here

[branchv]

Yea brew is an evergreen package manager so we just ship the latest versions of packages (with some exceptions linked above). If you need fine-grained control over versions/pythons, definitely use pipx install (or uv tool install)

Btw, if you just want to avoid python3.14 being in PATH, you can brew unlink python@3.14. Or if you want to prevent poetry from creating a 3.14 venv by default, you could brew install python@3.13 && poetry env use 3.13