Update the pyenv documentation to mention pythonz too

(and move the custom compilation on the top, as that’s what’s easiest
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Installing python 3.4 as a user
-------------------------------
Building your own python 3
==========================
- Go to the `python download page`_
- Select the “Latest Python 3 Release”
- Download a tarball and extract it
- Run ``./configure && make`` (takes only a few minutes even on old CPUs)
- Edit the poezio launch.sh script to make it call your user-compiled python binary
Pyenv (x86/x86_64 only)
=======================
@ -22,17 +31,17 @@ Then you only need to add a ``.python-version`` file containing ``3.4.2`` in
your poezio directory to make the python version in that directory default to
the python 3.4.2 installed with pyenv.
Building your own python 3
==========================
- Go to the `python download page`_
- Select the “Latest Python 3 Release”
- Download a tarball and extract it
- Run ``./configure && make`` (takes a few minutes even on old CPUs)
- Edit the poezio launch.sh script to make it call your user-compiled python
Other
=====
pythonz_ allows the same kind of version management as pyenv, but builds
from source instead of fetching precompiled binaries, so it allows more
control over what is going on.
.. _Pyenv: https://github.com/yyuu/pyenv
.. _installation tutorial: https://github.com/yyuu/pyenv#installation
.. _automated installer: https://github.com/yyuu/pyenv-installer
.. _python download page: https://www.python.org/downloads/source/
.. _pythonz: https://github.com/saghul/pythonz