setenv in Apple Script does not work in Mac OS 10.10 (Yosemite)

Question

I have a Apple Script Application that I use to set environment variables using several commandos like

do shell script "setenv VAR value"

But since I updated to Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) this does not work any longer. I get

sh: setenv: command not found (127)

Answer 1

I could solve it by adding launchctl to the line:

do shell script "launchctl setenv VAR value"

I also had the problem using nohup in the same script and had to use the full path /usr/bin/nohup instead.