[Feature]: use pyenv to install compatible python version

[cb88]

Feature description

This can be done manually currently but webui.sh or somthing should probably handle this so distros that update thier system python to a version that is too new can continue to work out of the box.

Version Platform Description

ArchLinux python 3.13.x is too new.

[vladmandic]

valid request, but...
problem is that pyenv itself is not present on many distros, so we'd need to download and install it.
and installing pyenv includes modifying user's .bashrc which is not i want to do automatically by sdnext.

[cb88]

I had not considered the .bashrc part.... valid point there. Perhaps more of a FAQ thing then, because its one of those things that probably is going occur on and off half the time as Arch or similar distro will have a too new python frequently.

[vladmandic]

perhaps you want to contribute and write a wiki article?
format is markdown, upload file file and i'll add it to wiki and post links to it where appropriate.

[mr44er]

pyenv includes modifying user's .bashrc which is not i want to do automatically by sdnext.

yay python312
python3.12 -m venv venv

Works without touching .bashrc

Reference: https://docs.python.org/3.12/tutorial/venv.html

As I understand that (really a noob here when it comes to scripts/programming and a noob on arch) it is a new feature making pyenv, python-virtualenv etc. obsolete.

[vladmandic]

its doesn't make venv obsolete, that's exactly what its designed to do - when you activate venv, it will always use python executable that was used to create venv in the first place.

but yes, that is one of ways to handle multiple python versions - manually pre-create venv before starting sdnext.

anyhow, closing this feature request as pyenv cannot be added due to previously listed reasons.