Configurable cache action

[aaomidi]

GitHub's cache is great if you're using GitHub hosted runners, but the cache heavily drops off in performance when you're using something else.

There are other cache providers that are fully compatible with actions/cache, but semantically work differently. For example: https://github.com/runs-on/cache

Would it be possible to support these caches? I think two flags would make sense:

1. the cache action label
2. additional arguments to pass into with block

[p0deje]

Unfortunately, it's not as straightforward as just replacing the actions/cache with something else. This action uses the JavaScript cache library directly so to use a different library, a new action has to be built with the library changed in package.json at the very least.

You can try forking the action and replacing @actions/cache with a runs-on library (assuming it's provided). If it proves to work, I'll see what the best way is to opt-in for a different cache library.

[aaomidi]

@p0deje I think https://github.com/actions/cache/releases/tag/v4.2.0 actually solves the problem. I think with this, I'll be able to make the cache backend configurable.

[aaomidi]

I guess its already actually in 4.0.0? https://www.npmjs.com/package/@actions/cache

[p0deje]

@aaomidi How would you make the cache backend configurable? I don't see any API in https://www.npmjs.com/package/@actions/cache package.