Improve example version instructions. Add info about "lts" if user specifies 1.6 explicitly

.github/workflows/example-builds.yml

@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ jobs:
  strategy:
  fail-fast: false
  matrix:
- julia-version: ['1.0.5', '1.2', '^1.5.0-beta1', '1', 'lts', 'pre']
+ # include '1.6' here to test info message about lts tag existing
+ julia-version: ['1.0.5', '1.2', '^1.5.0-beta1', '1', '1.6', 'lts', 'pre']
  julia-arch: [x64, x86]
  os: [ubuntu-latest, macOS-latest, windows-latest]
  # 32-bit Julia binaries are not available on macOS

README.md

@@ -5,17 +5,25 @@
 This action sets up a Julia environment for use in actions by downloading a specified version of Julia and adding it to PATH.
 
 ## Table of Contents
-- [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents)
-- [Usage](#usage)
- - [Inputs](#inputs)
- - [Outputs](#outputs)
- - [Basic](#basic)
- - [Julia Versions](#julia-versions)
- - [Matrix Testing](#matrix-testing)
- - [versioninfo](#versioninfo)
-- [Versioning](#versioning)
-- [Debug logs](#debug-logs)
-- [Third party information](#third-party-information)
+- [setup-julia Action](#setup-julia-action)
+ - [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents)
+ - [Usage](#usage)
+ - [Inputs](#inputs)
+ - [Outputs](#outputs)
+ - [Basic](#basic)
+ - [Julia Versions](#julia-versions)
+ - [Examples](#examples)
+ - [Prereleases](#prereleases)
+ - [Recently released versions](#recently-released-versions)
+ - [Matrix Testing](#matrix-testing)
+ - [64-bit Julia only](#64-bit-julia-only)
+ - [32-bit Julia](#32-bit-julia)
+ - [versioninfo](#versioninfo)
+ - [Versioning](#versioning)
+ - [Using Dependabot version updates to keep your GitHub Actions up to date](#using-dependabot-version-updates-to-keep-your-github-actions-up-to-date)
+ - [Debug logs](#debug-logs)
+ - [Third party information](#third-party-information)
+ - [Contributing to this repo](#contributing-to-this-repo)
 
 ## Usage
 
@@ -30,7 +38,7 @@ This action sets up a Julia environment for use in actions by downloading a spec
  # Warning: It is strongly recommended to wrap this value in quotes.
  # Otherwise, the YAML parser used by GitHub Actions parses certain
  # versions as numbers which causes the wrong version to be selected.
- # For example, `1.0` may be parsed as `1`.
+ # For example, `1.10` may be parsed as `1.1`.
  #
  # Default: '1'
  version: ''

action.yml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ description: 'Setup a Julia environment and add it to the PATH'
 author: 'Sascha Mann'
 inputs:
  version:
- description: 'The Julia version to download (if necessary) and use. Example: 1.0.4'
+ description: 'The Julia version to download (if necessary) and use. Use a string input to avoid unwanted decimal conversion e.g. 1.10 without quotes will be interpreted as 1.1. Examples: "1", "1.10", "lts", "pre"'
  default: '1'
  include-all-prereleases:
  description: 'Include prereleases when matching the Julia version to available versions.'

src/setup-julia.ts

@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ async function run() {
  if (!versionInput) { // if `versionInput` is an empty string
  throw new Error('Version input must not be null')
  }
+ if (versionInput == '1.6') {
+ core.notice('[setup-julia] If you are testing 1.6 as a Long Term Support (lts) version, consider using the new "lts" version specifier instead of "1.6" explicitly, which will automatically resolve the current lts.')
+ }
  if (!originalArchInput) { // if `originalArchInput` is an empty string
  throw new Error(`Arch input must not be null`)
  }