* FixesHomebrew/homebrew#20572 by tweaking the logic that decides
which python is used by the `python` object
inside a formula. There was a bug when on 10.6
there is no Python 2.7 but a :recommended
Python was still treated as being available.
* Use the user's PATH when looking for an external
Python. Until now only brewed or OS X system's
python have been found by `depends_on :python`.
But now we support any Python in PATH (e.g.
pyenv's python).
* Further, instead of handling python modules
and import tests in LanguageModuleDependency,
these are now handled by:
depends_on :python => 'numpy' # for example
The old style
depends_on 'numpy' => :python
is still supported and is only an alias
for the newer style (only for :python, the
other languages are not altered by this commit).
The reasoning is that if a formula requires
a python module, it basically also needs
python itself - and further that specific
version of python has to provide the module.
So the `PythonInstalled` is the natural place
to check for the availability of a python
module.
Using a python module and other tags like
:optional or :recommended is done like so:
depends_on :python => [:optional, 'numpy']
Specifying another PyPi (Python Package index)
name than the module import name is seldom used
but supported, too:
depends_on :python => ['enchant'=>'pyenchant']
A last note: For clarity, you can define
multiple depends_on statements with different
modules to be importable.`
* The python do ... end block does no longer
require 'superenv' but saves and restores
the ENV by using ENV.to_hash and `ensure`.
This should resolve some build problems
with formulae using `env :std`!
* `python_helper` is now in a module `Python`.
* Imporoved some comments in python_dependency.rb
This applies only to non-brewed python:
The user will still have to set his PYTHONPATH
in order to import python modules in an
external python interpreter. However, a
warning will be displayed, now.
Further, during the build, the PYTHONPATH
will be set to Homebrew's global site-packages
so that software (like PyQt and others) that
need to `import sipconfig` in python can
find the brewed sip and its python module.
Since Python has been removed from superenv and
added as an explicit `depends_on :python`,
we should add
`-F#{HOMEBREW_PREFIX}/opt/python/Framewoks`
so that build tools that don't use
`python-config --ldflags` (as they should!)
can link against brewed Python.
New `depends_on :python` Dependency.
New `depends_on :python3` Dependency.
To avoid having multiple formulae with endings -py2 and -py3,
we will handle support for different pythons (2.x vs. 3.x)
in the same formula.
Further brewed vs. external python will be transparently supported.
The formula also gets a new object `python`, which is false if
no Python is available or the user has disabled it. Otherwise
it is defined and provides several support methods:
python.site_packages # the site-packages in the formula's Cellar
python.global_site_packages
python.binary # the full path to the python binary
python.prefix
python.version
python.version.major
python.version.minor
python.xy # => e.g. "python2.7"
python.incdir # includes of python
python.libdir # the python dylib library
python.pkg_config_path # used internally by brew
python.from_osx?
python.framework?
python.universal?
python.pypy?
python.standard_caveats # Text to set PYTHONPATH for python.from_osx?
python.if3then3 # => "" for 2.x and to "3" for 3.x.
Further, to avoid code duplication, `python` takes an optional
block that is run twice if the formula defines depends_on
:python AND :python3.
python do
system python, 'setup.py', "--prefix=#{prefix}"
end
Read more in the Homebrew wiki.
