> Actually, it only builds it locally if it can't find a pre-packaged version for your system/arch. Admittedly that's most of the recent ones on a Mac, but there is a difference (I've been using pyenv for nearly ten years[1] now).
Really? I regularly use this on Linux exactly because it compiles from source rather than using the system provided Python which often have patches in them that breaks pip's test suite.
I've never encountered it trying to use the system provided Python, but maybe there's a weird quirk in the way I am using it.
Really? I regularly use this on Linux exactly because it compiles from source rather than using the system provided Python which often have patches in them that breaks pip's test suite.
I've never encountered it trying to use the system provided Python, but maybe there's a weird quirk in the way I am using it.