Make --use-new-action-cache the new default for downloading actions

[ChristopherHX]

• Impove logging of --use-new-action-cache #2471
• deprecate the old
  • migrate tests
• ask for cleanup of all folders used by old action cache
• plan removal of the old, breaking for act_runner, gh-act-runner

[ChristopherHX]

Ask for cleanup has been discarded

old cache names use an @ symbol, new cache entries no longer have that part

[ChristopherHX]

Abandoning

[snowflyak]

@ChristopherHX, are you abandoning the immediate plan to switch to new action cache by default or the whole idea of replacing the cache engine implementation? Is this due to having come up a better solution or because of lack of time/interest?

[ChristopherHX]

are you abandoning the immediate plan to switch to new action cache by default or the whole idea of replacing the cache engine implementation?

I am abandoning both for nektos/act only¹

Is this due to having come up a better solution or because of lack of time/interest?

Due to lack of time/interest of reviewers no comments within a 2 month timeframe in my PR that implements every point mentioned in this issue.

If you are able to involve cplee or wolfogre (on of them is required for a merge of my changes) this can be reconsidered from my point of view for nektos/act.

Footnotes

1. I have settled with a code split of the whole project for now, where I'm an owner.
   Released in actions-oss/act-cli v0.3.0 / 1. February 2025 ↩