From 0bcf8ef2baf9ecf42f9ef4875f40aedde003bacf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Cl=C3=A9ment=20Robert?= Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 10:35:17 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] DOC: document -dev syntactic sugar --- README.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 1099b3a31..ec831628b 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ Check out our detailed guide on using [Python with GitHub Actions](https://help. - For every minor version of Python, expect only the latest patch to be preinstalled. - If `3.8.1` is installed for example, and `3.8.2` is released, expect `3.8.1` to be removed and replaced by `3.8.2` in the tools cache. - If the exact patch version doesn't matter to you, specifying just the major and minor version will get you the latest preinstalled patch version. In the previous example, the version spec `3.8` will use the `3.8.2` Python version found in the cache. + - Use `-dev` instead of a patch number (e.g., `3.11-dev`) to install the latest release of a minor version, *alpha and beta releases included*. - Downloadable Python versions from GitHub Releases ([actions/python-versions](https://github.com/actions/python-versions/releases)). - All available versions are listed in the [version-manifest.json](https://github.com/actions/python-versions/blob/main/versions-manifest.json) file. - If there is a specific version of Python that is not available, you can open an issue here