On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 at 10:18, Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 20:29:52 -0500 > Jonathan Goble <jcgob...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I can't speak for distributors or maintainers [1], but I can speak for > > myself as a user. I run Debian testing (currently bullseye as that is > > preparing for release) as my daily OS on my personal laptop, used for > > personal matters and school assignments (I'm a university computer > > science student in my senior year). > > > > I don't use the system Python for anything of my own, whether it's a > > school assignment or a personal project, precisely because I don't > > want to risk screwing something up. Rather, I maintain a clone/fork of > > the official CPython GitHub repo, and periodically build from source > > and `make altinstall` into `~/.local/`. > > For the record, instead of building Python by hand, you could use a > distribution such as Anaconda or the community-maintained conda-forge. > > Regards > > Antoine. > > I've been using pyenv (on MacBooks to be fair, not Linux/Debian) and been quite happy with that, and it basically does what Jonathan does manually: clone the github repo and build python from scratch.
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