Manage versioning of Task tool dependency #659
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The "Task" task runner tool is used to perform all common development and maintenance operations for the project. Previously, the version of Task was not well managed. The GitHub Actions workflows used the latest version of Task, only constrained by major version. This meant that the GitHub Actions workflows could break at any time through a new release of Task that contained regressions or breaking changes. The contributors used whichever version of Task happened to be installed on their machine. This meant that they might get different results from that produced by the environment of the GitHub Actions workflows. The better solution is to take the same approach for managing the Task dependency as is done for the project's other dependencies: * Install a specific version of Task according to a single source of versioning data. * Use the Dependabot service to get automated update pull requests. Since Task is a Go module-based project, this can be accomplished by using the Go modules system, which has explicit support for tool dependencies as of the Go 1.24 release.
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This was referenced Sep 16, 2025
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I discovered that I was mistaken about this effect. Although Dependabot does provide update PRs when tool dependencies are managed via the alternative provisional " |
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The "Task" task runner tool is used to perform all common development and maintenance operations for the project.
Previously, the version of Task was not well managed.
The GitHub Actions workflows used the latest version of Task, only constrained by major version. This meant that the GitHub Actions workflows could break at any time through a new release of Task that contained regressions or breaking changes.
The contributors used whichever version of Task happened to be installed on their machine. This meant that they might get different results from that produced by the environment of the GitHub Actions workflows.
The better solution is to take the same approach for managing the Task dependency as is done for the project's other dependencies:
Since Task is a Go module-based project, this can be accomplished by using the Go modules system, which has explicit support for tool dependencies as of the Go 1.24 release.