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diff --git a/doc/source/misc/pyenv.rst b/doc/source/misc/pyenv.rst index bb26f759..e46f1bec 100644 --- a/doc/source/misc/pyenv.rst +++ b/doc/source/misc/pyenv.rst @@ -3,6 +3,15 @@ Installing python 3.4 as a user ------------------------------- +Building your own python 3 +========================== + +- Go to the `python download page`_ +- Select the “Latest Python 3 Release” +- Download a tarball and extract it +- Run ``./configure && make`` (takes only a few minutes even on old CPUs) +- Edit the poezio launch.sh script to make it call your user-compiled python binary + Pyenv (x86/x86_64 only) ======================= @@ -22,17 +31,17 @@ Then you only need to add a ``.python-version`` file containing ``3.4.2`` in your poezio directory to make the python version in that directory default to the python 3.4.2 installed with pyenv. -Building your own python 3 -========================== -- Go to the `python download page`_ -- Select the “Latest Python 3 Release” -- Download a tarball and extract it -- Run ``./configure && make`` (takes a few minutes even on old CPUs) -- Edit the poezio launch.sh script to make it call your user-compiled python +Other +===== + +pythonz_ allows the same kind of version management as pyenv, but builds +from source instead of fetching precompiled binaries, so it allows more +control over what is going on. .. _Pyenv: https://github.com/yyuu/pyenv .. _installation tutorial: https://github.com/yyuu/pyenv#installation .. _automated installer: https://github.com/yyuu/pyenv-installer .. _python download page: https://www.python.org/downloads/source/ +.. _pythonz: https://github.com/saghul/pythonz |