Move post-action into main-action to allow 3rd party GitHub action runner

GitHub action runner unfortunately only supports the three major OS systems, e.g. Windows, macOS, Linux (unlike GitLab runner). Native users may want to run their Gradle build on other self-hosted systems such as FreeBSD, Solaris, etc. or other architectures like PPC, MIPS, ARM, etc. The github-act-runner seems to be the recommended solution. Unfortunately, this runner doesn’t support pre/post actions. Double unfortunately, GitHub doesn’t seem to be interested in solving support for more OS/Architecture any time soon.

It seems to be quite trivial to modify the action and execute the only cache.save() in the main-action allowing wider support for this GitHub action.

[bigdaz]

As I said, I’m willing to make it possible to use a separate action step to cache the Gradle User Home, assuming that this change doesn’t impact the majority of users who don’t require it. I think the simplest and least intrusive mechanism would be a special configuration option that enables this.

If you’re interested in pushing this forward I suggest that you fork this repo and try it out. My experience with https://github.com/nektos/act was not great, so there may be other blockers in getting gradle-build-action to work on github-act-runner.

[lacasseio]

I don’t exactly agree, but I can see why it isn’t much of an issue. Let’s close this issue as won’t fix.