install-juliaup

GitHub Action to install juliaup.

When you use this action, it will do three things:

1. Make sure that juliaup is available (downloading it if necessary).
2. Use juliaup to install the specified version of Julia.
3. Add both juliaup and julia to the PATH.

Usage

Examples

To install the latest stable Julia v1:

- uses: julia-actions/install-juliaup@v2
  with:
    channel: '1'

# Your selected Julia version is now available in the PATH:
- run: julia --version

To install a specific Julia version:

- uses: julia-actions/install-juliaup@v2
  with:
    channel: '1.10.2'

In general, if juliaup add FOO would have been a valid command on your local machine, then FOO is a valid value for the channel input to this action.

So, for example, suppose that you want alpha pre-releases for the next upcoming release. On your local machine, juliaup add alpha is a valid command. Therefore, alpha is a valid value for the channel input to this action:

- uses: julia-actions/install-juliaup@v2
  with:
    channel: 'alpha'

See the Juliaup README for more examples.

Job matrices

For example, suppose that your GitHub Actions workflow file includes a job matrix as such:

strategy:
  matrix:
    juliaup_channel:
      - 'lts'
      - '1.10'
      - '1'
      - 'nightly'

Then install-juliaup can use this job matrix as follows:

- uses: julia-actions/install-juliaup@v2
  with:
    channel: ${{ matrix.juliaup_channel }}

Calling juliaup directly

When the install-juliaup action runs, it adds juliaup to the PATH. Therefore, in subsequent steps, you can directly run juliaup commands if you want:

- uses: julia-actions/install-juliaup@v2
  with:
    channel: '1'

- run: juliaup status
- run: juliaup add 1.10
- run: juliaup update 1.10
- run: juliaup default 1.10
- run: juliaup status

Using Dependabot version updates to keep your GitHub Actions up to date

We highly recommend that you set up Dependabot version updates on your repo to keep your GitHub Actions up to date.

To set up Dependabot version updates, create a file named .github/dependabot.yml in your repo with the following contents:

version: 2
updates:
  - package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
    directory: "/"
    schedule:
      interval: "monthly"
    open-pull-requests-limit: 99
    labels:
      - "dependencies"
      - "github-actions"

For more details on Dependabot version updates, see the GitHub Dependabot documentation.

Contributing to this repo

Please see the README in the devdocs folder.

Private internals

The internal-juliaup-version input is a private internal and is not part of the public API of this action. Therefore, in a future non-breaking (minor or patch) release of this action, we are allowed to:

1. Rename the input.
2. Remove the input altogether.
3. Change the default value of the input.
4. Make any other changes to the behavior of the input.