# pyenv-binary (experimental)

Package an installed Python version into a relocatable archive that can be
installed on another machine.

This is experimental and intentionally decoupled: it does not change
`pyenv install` or any other command. You drive it explicitly through
`pyenv binary`. Run `pyenv binary <command> --help` for details on a command.

## Portability

An archive is portable across machines that share its build platform (OS,
architecture and a compatible libc) and have the recorded system libraries. It
is not portable across, say, glibc and musl, or to an older glibc; the platform
and dependency metadata exist to catch that.