Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3

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  • tigerbrew

    Experimental fork of homebrew for PPC Macs on Tiger

  • Tigerbrew has a python2 formula available back to 10.4: https://github.com/mistydemeo/tigerbrew/blob/master/Library/...

  • zsh

    Mirror of the Z shell source code repository.

  • I seem to remember they just switch default shell to zsh, which is MIT [0]

    [0] https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh/blob/master/LICENCE

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  • homebrew-emacs-plus

    Emacs Plus formulae for the Homebrew package manager

  • There are taps that build GUI Emacs via homebrew, that's what I use. In particular, I use this one: https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus

  • homebrew-deadsnakes

    Discontinued Homebrew tap with old and new Python versions for macOS

  • pyenv

    Simple Python version management

  • PSA: don't use brew to manage your development python, unless you like having the carpet pulled out from under you by brew deciding to change 3.8 to 3.9 on you.

    Use brew to install pyenv (or bootstrap it from github). Use pyenv to manage python versions, and then use a virtualenv.

    Or conda, if that is your jam.

    https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv

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