Merge pull request #7 from showyourwork/showyourwork-spec

allow users to choose specific syw version

README.rst

@@ -63,6 +63,11 @@ The **showyourwork-action** accepts any of the following inputs, all of which ar
 
 **Optional** Specify the URL of the :code:`latexpand` script to download. You may use this to set a custom version of :code:`latexpand`.
 
+:code:`showyourwork-spec`
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+**Optional** The version specification of :code:`showyourwork` to install using :code:`pip`. The code will be installed as :code:`pip install -U <showyourwork-spec>`. Default is :code:`showyourwork` (which resolves to the latest available version on PyPI).
+
 Environment variables
 ---------------------
 

action.yml

@@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ inputs:
     description: "URL to download `latexpand`"
     required: false
     default: "https://gitlab.com/latexpand/latexpand/-/raw/master/latexpand"
+  showyourwork-spec:
+    description: "pip version specification for installing showyourwork, e.g., `pip install <showyourwork_spec>`"
+    required: false
+    default: "showyourwork"
 branding:
   icon: "book-open"
   color: "red"

src/conda.js

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ module.exports = { setupConda };
 
 // Cache settings
 const CONDA_CACHE_NUMBER = core.getInput("conda-cache-number");
+const SHOWYOUWORK_SPEC = core.getInput("showyourwork-spec");
 const RUNNER_OS = shell.env["RUNNER_OS"];
 const conda_key = `conda-${constants.conda_cache_version}-${RUNNER_OS}-${CONDA_CACHE_NUMBER}`;
 const conda_restoreKeys = [];
@@ -50,8 +51,8 @@ async function setupConda() {
     core.endGroup();
   }
 
-  // Always install the latest version of showyourwork
-  exec("pip install -U showyourwork", "Install showyourwork");
+  // Install showyourwork
+  exec(`pip install -U ${SHOWYOUWORK_SPEC}`, "Install showyourwork");
 
   // Display some info
   exec("conda info", "Conda info");