MacOS and pyenv peculiarities

Update: 2025/2026 I use uv almost exclusively now; and sometimes poetry. My development environment is typically something along the lines of: homebrew for installed, compiled applications. mise for common utilities that are large and updated infrequently, for example: ansible node python uv for python virtual environment management. One side effect of the above is that I haven’t had to remember how to compile python in a while. For historic context; here’s the original post: