Github action with just @v2 version not found

[rogerbinns]

Description

I no longer want to specify the full cibuildwheel version and have to keep updating it, so I tried with only @v2

Before uses: pypa/[email protected]

After: uses: pypa/cibuildwheel@v2

That works for other actions, but attempting an action run gives the error message:

Unable to resolve action `pypa/cibuildwheel@v2`, unable to find version `v2`

Build log

https://github.com/rogerbinns/apsw/actions/runs/5965705676

CI config

https://github.com/rogerbinns/apsw/actions/runs/5965705676/workflow

[henryiii]

You can use v2.15, which will not need updates as often. v2 is just somewhat commonly added by actions¹, but is intentionally not supported, since we add and remove platforms (new CPython versions, PyPy releases, muslinux, etc) in "minor" releases, which might surprisingly break you on releases.

If you don't want a pin, or want to have a custom pin, you can use run: pipx run cibuildwheel <args> instead of the action. The main reason for the action is to have the dependabot updates. Internally it just runs pipx run.

See #1517.

Footnotes

1. GitHub's tool to automate this, used by actions/* repos, is actually considered private, I believe. ↩

[rogerbinns]

I am fine with the cibuildwheel changes which could break things, but never have for me because my project already supports and is tested on all the things, and I do test builds to test pypi. But I understand why the cibuildwheel project is doing this, so closing the issue. Consider this an upvote for allowing just the major version to be specified.