Discussion about [email protected] not be keg_only any more

[robsonpeixoto]

All python@<version> packages are very useful if you work with a lot of python version on your daily job.

For some reason linuxbrew + asdf + plugin-python do not work well, and in a lot of situation the homebrew packages make a great job!

My suggestion is to all [email protected] not be keg_only anymore installing only the specific binaries of the current version. And the python formula only add the generic python binaries.

For example:

[email protected] should only install all bin/*-3.7 binaries:

❯ brew ls [email protected] 
[email protected]/3.7.12_1/bin/2to3-3.7
[email protected]/3.7.12_1/bin/idle3.7
[email protected]/3.7.12_1/bin/pip3.7
[email protected]/3.7.12_1/bin/pydoc3.7
[email protected]/3.7.12_1/bin/python3-config
[email protected]/3.7.12_1/bin/python3.7-config
[email protected]/3.7.12_1/bin/python3.7m-config
[email protected]/3.7.12_1/bin/pyvenv-3.7

and the python should do the symlink to the current default python version:

❯ ls -l /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/python3

/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/python3 -> ../Cellar/[email protected]/3.9.9/bin/python3.9

Makes sense?

[SMillerDev]

What about all the libraries? And pkg-config files?

[robsonpeixoto]

Always use the suffix x.y. Like the debian packages:

❯ dpkg -L libpython3.7 python3.7
/.
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/python3.7
/usr/lib/python3.7/config-3.7m-x86_64-linux-gnu
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython3.7m.so.1.0
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/lintian
/usr/share/lintian/overrides
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/libpython3.7
/usr/lib/python3.7/config-3.7m-x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython3.7.so
/usr/lib/python3.7/config-3.7m-x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython3.7m.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython3.7m.so.1
/usr/share/doc/libpython3.7

/.
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/pydoc3.7
/usr/bin/pygettext3.7
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/python3
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages
/usr/lib/python3.7
/usr/lib/python3.7/lib-dynload
/usr/share
/usr/share/applications
/usr/share/applications/python3.7.desktop
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/python3.7
/usr/share/doc/python3.7/ACKS.gz
/usr/share/doc/python3.7/NEWS.gz
/usr/share/doc/python3.7/README.Debian
/usr/share/doc/python3.7/README.rst.gz
/usr/share/doc/python3.7/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/python3.7/copyright
/usr/share/lintian
/usr/share/lintian/overrides
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/python3.7
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man1
/usr/share/man/man1/pdb3.7.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pydoc3.7.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pygettext3.7.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pysetup3.7.1.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps
/usr/share/pixmaps/python3.7.xpm
/usr/bin/pdb3.7
/usr/share/doc/python3.7/changelog.gz