issues with userpath dependency

I have some issues with the direct and hard dependency on userpath.

The main issue is the dependency on a separate top level python CLI tool: I use pipx to wrap ALL python CLI tools (that are not available in a package manager, i.e. homebrew). The setup instructions for pipx now require a separate python CLI tool which I ideally would have installed through pipx itself (pipx install userpath).

When installing via homebrew, only pipx binaries are added to the PATH- cli tools from dependencies are not added. Since I don’t install any python packages globally (pip freeze is empty), I can’t run python3 -m userpath ....

I recommend either:

1. make userpath a subcommand of pipx similar to ensurepath OR

2. taking the approach of pyenv and several other libraries out there of telling users to pipe the command into their shell profile:

   echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
   

   • Zsh note: Modify your ~/.zshenv file instead of ~/.bash_profile.
   • Ubuntu and Fedora note: Modify your ~/.bashrc file instead of ~/.bash_profile

[cs01]

Pipx ensurepath would come back and be the canonical method for all platforms and packaging tools. Its implementation would be userpath, but the user would not know or care.

[AlJohri]

@jaraco @cs01 lets try once to create the userpath homebrew package that pipx can depend on since this seems to be the cleanest solution. if there are issues with the notability requirements we can move forward with the pipx ensurepath?

I dropped a comment here inquiring: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/39483#issuecomment-489444236