Previously GitHub updated their `ubuntu-latest` images to use Ubuntu
24.04 which has Python 3.12 as the default interpreter. Before that,
it was Ubuntu 22.04 with Python 3.9. This caused an uncontrolled
runtime bump which led to an incompatibility discovery — older
versions of `setuptools` are incompatible with Python 3.12.
This bumps the `setuptools` version following the previous commit
da900af963 that pins the distro version.
Going forward, these two must be bumped in tandem to avoid situations
when one gets upgraded suddenly but the other doesn't.
Up to this point, the project has been set up as a Docker action
referencing the Dockerfile. The downside to using the Dockerfile for the
action is that the Docker image must be built every time the action is
used.
This commit will set up the project to build the Docker image and push
it to GitHub Container Registry (GHCR). This change will speed up user
workflows every time the action is used because the workflows will
simply pull the Docker image from GHCR instead of building again.
Changes:
- Add required metadata to Dockerfile
- Build container image with GitHub Actions
- Push container image to GHCR
Docker actions support pulling in pre-built Docker images. The downside
is that there's no way to specify the correct Docker tag because the
GitHub Actions `image` and `uses:` keys don't accept any context.
For example, if a user's workflow has
`uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1.8`, then the action should
pull in a Docker image built from the `release/v1.8` branch, something
like `ghcr.io/pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish:release-v1.8` (Docker tags
can't have `/`). The workaround is to switch the top-level `action.yml`
to a composite action that then calls the Docker action, substituting
the correct image name and tag.
Up until now, the action input names followed the snake_case naming
pattern that is well familiar to the pythonistas. But in GitHub
actions, the de-facto standard is using kebab-case, which is what
this patch achieves.
This style helps make the keys in YAML better standardized and
distinguishable from other identifiers.
The old snake_case names remain functional for the time being and will
not be removed until at least v3 release of this action.
Sviatoslav Sydorenko