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> feel free to have different versions of python installed side-by-side with some "main" version preferably symlinked as `python` and `python3` This is what py

> feel free to have different versions of python installed side-by-side with some "main" version preferably symlinked as `python` and `python3` This is what pyenv does.

airstrike 3y ago
by compiling from source? god no. also it's terribly named because it conflates the idea of python environments with python versions just install pre-compiled python from official sources side-by-side. no pyenv needed
- rovr138 3y ago
  But that’s the point of the tool. Let it manage that for you.
  - airstrike 3y ago
    right, but now you know even less about your setup when you some roadblock. and compiling python from source is very slow and error prone because it requires a bunch of flags and other libraries to be available. I have no problem compiling stuff from source generally, but python specifically is a major PITA and I already have homebrew to install python (and anything else), which I trust to have more users and better formulas. other OSes have their own tools
    - rovr138 3y ago
      > right, but now you know even less about your setup when you some roadblock This is the same with a binary though. And with homebrew, you can't follow patches or flags used or if they change. - https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/c964ad7fa53ade9b665c91a601bdb4b9cd19d8d2/Formula/p/python%403.12.rb#L139-L151 https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/c964ad7fa53ad... - https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/c964ad7fa53ade9b665c91a601bdb4b9cd19d8d2/Formula/p/python%403.12.rb#L91-L97 https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/c964ad7fa53ad... - https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/c964ad7fa53ade9b665c91a601bdb4b9cd19d8d2/Formula/p/python%403.12.rb#L305-L308 https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/c964ad7fa53ad... Not arguing for good or bad, just saying that the problem isn't limited to this.

> feel free to have different versions of python installed side-by-side with some "main" version preferably symlinked as `python` and `python3` This is what pyenv does.

airstrike 3y ago

by compiling from source? god no. also it's terribly named because it conflates the idea of python environments with python versions just install pre-compiled python from official sources side-by-side. no pyenv needed

rovr138 3y ago
But that’s the point of the tool. Let it manage that for you.
- airstrike 3y ago
  right, but now you know even less about your setup when you some roadblock. and compiling python from source is very slow and error prone because it requires a bunch of flags and other libraries to be available. I have no problem compiling stuff from source generally, but python specifically is a major PITA and I already have homebrew to install python (and anything else), which I trust to have more users and better formulas. other OSes have their own tools
  - rovr138 3y ago
    > right, but now you know even less about your setup when you some roadblock This is the same with a binary though. And with homebrew, you can't follow patches or flags used or if they change. - https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/c964ad7fa53ade9b665c91a601bdb4b9cd19d8d2/Formula/p/python%403.12.rb#L139-L151 https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/c964ad7fa53ad... - https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/c964ad7fa53ade9b665c91a601bdb4b9cd19d8d2/Formula/p/python%403.12.rb#L91-L97 https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/c964ad7fa53ad... - https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/c964ad7fa53ade9b665c91a601bdb4b9cd19d8d2/Formula/p/python%403.12.rb#L305-L308 https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/c964ad7fa53ad... Not arguing for good or bad, just saying that the problem isn't limited to this.