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In lieu of <https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/7369|https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/7369>, why doesn't the Pants bootstrap script download+install Python into the pants setup cache?

That can be hard! C.F.: All the complexity in the `python-build` plugin in pyenv (<https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv/tree/master/plugins/python-build>). That said, using `pyenv` to do the bootstrapping has been discussed in the past. Brass tacks, this project is somewhat like the old docsite circa 2012-2019 - lots of talk and ideas and no-one willing to commit to sinking time into it.

Pants using pyenv sounds not too bad :thinking_face:
Is the prior discussion available to read?

It would be in the pants-devel mailing list if written down - and old summit meeting notes which are linked in pants-devel.

Old summit meeting notes are somewhat painful or funny to read depending on your disposition.  Just browsed ~3 of those. We've come along way, but we also thrash on what we say with straight-faced "clearly" and "all agree".  Its good to always remember you never really know what you're doing.