From 5273cb634cdeaef0866355088b9c228e363630a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mathieui Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2015 13:43:47 +0100 Subject: Update the pyenv documentation to mention pythonz too MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit (and move the custom compilation on the top, as that’s what’s easiest --- doc/source/misc/pyenv.rst | 23 ++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/source') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3