[email protected] is missing Symlinks for major-versioned versions of binaries

[sebastianw]

Output of brew config

HOMEBREW_VERSION: 4.6.4-109-g3bbff84
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
HEAD: 3bbff84ff1e6194f57080b50d755e99beb07541d
Last commit: 58 minutes ago
Branch: main
Core tap HEAD: a18ddd0743c7c5f84b714f9f21f43a1351a83620
Core tap last commit: 60 minutes ago
Core tap JSON: 22 Aug 09:58 UTC
Core cask tap JSON: 22 Aug 09:43 UTC
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /opt/homebrew
HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS: []
HOMEBREW_EDITOR: vim
HOMEBREW_FORBID_PACKAGES_FROM_PATHS: set
HOMEBREW_MAKE_JOBS: 10
HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS: set
HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_FROM_API: set
HOMEBREW_SORBET_RUNTIME: set
Homebrew Ruby: 3.4.5 => /opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/vendor/portable-ruby/3.4.5/bin/ruby
CPU: deca-core 64-bit arm_donan
Clang: 17.0.0 build 1700
Git: 2.51.0 => /opt/homebrew/bin/git
Curl: 8.7.1 => /usr/bin/curl
macOS: 15.6-arm64
CLT: 16.4.0.0.1.1747106510
Xcode: N/A
Rosetta 2: false

Output of brew doctor

Your system is ready to brew.

Description of issue

The [email protected] package is missing the major-versioned symlinks for python binaries in the libexec/bin directory.

In [email protected] these were present, and now I can't use python3 when installing [email protected] and adding libexec/bin to the path (as the documentation states). It looks like the change was made explicitly because the description inside the formula also changed but I find no reasoning for it. This might break a few installations as it did mine.

Any idea why that happened and if possible could this be reverted?

Python 3.11:

~ ▶ ls /opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]/libexec/bin/
idle           pip            pydoc          python         python3        wheel
idle3          pip3           pydoc3         python-config  python3-config wheel3

~ ▶ ls /opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]/libexec/bin/
idle          pip           pydoc         python        python-config wheel

[carlocab]

That's because these are already in bin:

❯ ls /opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]/bin
󰡯 idle3     󰡯 pip3     󰡯 pydoc3     󰡯 python3          python3.13         󰡯 wheel3
 idle3.13   pip3.13   pydoc3.13  󰡯 python3-config   python3.13-config   wheel3.13

This makes them symlinked into $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/bin already:

❯ ls /opt/homebrew/bin/*3.13
 /opt/homebrew/bin/idle3.13   /opt/homebrew/bin/pip3.13   /opt/homebrew/bin/pydoc3.13   /opt/homebrew/bin/python3.13   /opt/homebrew/bin/wheel3.13

If you need these, add $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/bin or "$(brew --prefix [email protected])/bin" to your PATH.

Note that this is also true for [email protected], and other Python versions:

❯ ls "$(brew --prefix [email protected])/bin"
 2to3-3.12   idle3.12   pip3.12   pydoc3.12   python3.12   python3.12-config   wheel3.12

❯ ls "$(brew --prefix)/bin"/*3.12
 /opt/homebrew/bin/2to3-3.12   /opt/homebrew/bin/pip3.12     /opt/homebrew/bin/python3.12
 /opt/homebrew/bin/idle3.12    /opt/homebrew/bin/pydoc3.12   /opt/homebrew/bin/wheel3.12

[sebastianw]

Ah okay, my problem is that I have [email protected] and [email protected] in the path before the "general" homebrew bin (PATH contains /opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]/libexec/bin:/opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]/libexec/bin:/opt/homebrew/bin). So python3 from [email protected] takes precedence before the one in the general homebrew bin directory. I'll remove python3.11 from the path completely.