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There is a package, called pysyte, which provides a few scripts for use in the shell.

On any unixy OS I'd do: 

$ git clone https://github.com/jalanb/pysyte
$ cd pysyte
$ pip install -r ./requirements.txt
$ pip install -e .

And I would expect the package's bin/ scripts to be installed to the same bin/ that pip is in. That works everywhere for me if pip is in a virtualenv.

But it doesn't work on macOs where Python is installed by Homebrew.

When pip is /usr/local/bin/pip the package scripts do not get installed to /usr/local/bin, but to most recent of the Python versions at /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/*/bin/.

These are not directories that I want to add to my $PATH, so I'd prefer to have the packages' scripts installed to, e.g. /usr/local/bin/kat

Am I missing a config setting in Homebrew to get the scripts "linked on"? Or to ask Homebrew to not do a framewwork install?

Or should I bypass Homebrew, and altinstall a fresh Python from source to /usr/local - as I would've done on other unixy OSes?

FYI 

$ ll /usr/local/bin/pip*
lrwxr-xr-x 1 jab admin  4 Jul  7  2018 /usr/local/bin/pip -> pip3*
lrwxrwxr-x 1 jab admin 66 Jun 11  2018 /usr/local/bin/pip3 -> ../../../Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin/pip3*
lrwxrwxr-x 1 jab admin 68 Jun 11  2018 /usr/local/bin/pip3.7 -> ../../../Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin/pip3.7*
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I should have used python instead of pip:

$ git clone https://github.com/jalanb/pysyte
$ cd pysyte
$ pip install -r ./requirements.txt
$ sudo python setup.py install --install-scripts=/usr/local/bin

Which installs the scripts as expected, e.g.

$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/kat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jalanb jalanb 166 Jul  5 03:32 /usr/local/bin/kat
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