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Add support for automatically selecting (at run-time) the latest available release of Juliaup #8
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I think that this would be a lot of work for relatively little payoff. In order to make this work, we would need to use the GitHub API to fetch the list of all releases for the And in order to make requests to the GitHub API, we need a GitHub token with read access. |
We could upload the latest portable archive to a stable URL on S3, and then this action could always get the Juliaup binaries from that URL, and it would always be the latest version without any need to update things here. |
It occurs to me: we don't actually need to host the full archive somewhere. We actually only need to host a text file (on a JuliaLang domain) that contains the version number of the latest stable release of Julia. Then, in this action, we can:
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The idea is that the user could do e.g.
And then we automatically look up the latest available release of Juliaup, and use that. So the user doesn't have to hardcode the version number of Juliaup.
We can even make
latest
the default value for theinternal-juliaup-version
input, allowing the user to do this:The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: