Browser Development • Re: Building error related to Python.

You can build Python 2 with pyenv extremely easily. After installing pyenv you just run pyenv install 2.7, then point your $PATH to the folder containing the python2 binary so UXP picks up the new Python 2 build.

Oddly, that's very close to what I actually did on Linux and MSYS1 without pyenv... I guess they pretty much automated that idea of using PATH manipulation to point to various copies of Python.

Though from what I'm reading, the biggest sticking point, the need to get an outdated OpenSSL package that most users wouldn't know how to find, still applies even with pyenv, and they don't automate that part of the process (though they do at least warn you that you need the package rather than silently hand you a Python 2 with no hashlib). Which is what really makes the Docker container still the best turnkey solution available for an average Linux user.