Download instead of compiling?

[peterbe]

I love pyenv but I haven't been able to pyenv install 3.11 or pyenv install 3.12. ...for ages. It's always something. Here's how it looks today.
I think it's been a year since this has been a problem. I try every now and then and tire at trying to understand the errors. I many times skimmed through the wiki of common problems to no avail.

Surely, I've done something horrible on my macOS. When 3.10 came out, I think is when I installed pyenv.
And clearly I'm not alone :)

Anyway, I was watching https://rye-up.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q99TYA7LnuA and saw that it uses ...

Bootstraps Python: it provides an automated way to get access to the amazing Indygreg Python Builds as well as the PyPy binary distributions.

to get the binaries. I don't know much about it but I think the point is that it downloads the Pythons rather than compiling them. Can we make pyenv do that too? It could even become the default. Perhaps as an extension of pyenv it could become a new optional command:

# Downloads an already compiled version for my OS
> pyenv install --download 3.12

# Compiles a version for my OS
> pyenv install 3.12

[native-api]

We have an outstanding feature request for this: #2334

[native-api]

Duplicate of https://github.com/orgs/pyenv/discussions/1872