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Support custom Python versions #29
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My project requires Python 2.7.7 because it has to be compatible with a game that uses this version. It will be cool if the setup-python supports old versions. Now it doesn't:
##[error]Version 2.7.7 with arch x64 not found
Available versions:
2.7.16 (x64)
3.5.7 (x64)
3.6.9 (x64)
3.7.4 (x64)
##[error]Node run failed with exit code 1
So I have to add script to install it manually:
Can you implement executing these lines if the version not in [2.7.16, 3.5.7, 3.6.9, 3.7.4]? My script will be much smaller!
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konradpabjan commentedon Dec 10, 2019
We deliberately choose to only include a single major/minor version of Python in the tools cache.
2.7.16is the most recent version of Python 2.7. Every time there is an update, we remove the old version (example going from Python 3.5.8 -> 3.5.9).Manually installing a specific older version of Python is the best solution we can recommend.
SerVB commentedon Dec 10, 2019
That's pity... Could you share reasons?
pcraciunoiu commentedon Jul 30, 2020
Heroku requires a python version pinned AFAIK, and so every time the latest version changes in GitHub actions, builds break for our projects. This is costing us a lot of time, and is not something I had to deal with for CircleCI. If we were to manually install, I assume it would be slower and cost more in build time? Seems to me like you can at least support a version for a month or an overlap period.