ci: Speed up pip install by caching

Based on the benchmark, it speeds up by about 2x for the Ubuntu
instances. While extracting the cache tarball for the Windows instance
could be further sped up.
See #12.

Author: rht

.github/workflows/build_lint.yml

@@ -50,12 +50,29 @@ jobs:
       uses: actions/setup-python@v4
       with:
         python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+    - if: ${{ runner.os == 'Windows' }}
+      # This is needed so that restoring cache on Windows is fast.
+      # See until https://github.com/actions/cache/issues/752 is resolved.
+      name: Use GNU tar
+      shell: cmd
+      run: |
+        echo "Adding GNU tar to PATH"
+        echo C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin>>"%GITHUB_PATH%"
     - uses: actions/cache@v3
       with:
-        path: ~/.cache/pip
-        key: ${{ runner.os }}-pip-${{ matrix.python-version }}-${{ hashFiles('Pipfile.lock') }}
+        path: ${{ env.pythonLocation }}
+        key: ${{ runner.os }}-pip-${{ env.pythonLocation }}-${{ hashFiles('setup.py') }}
     - name: Install dependencies
-      run: pip install wheel && pip install .[dev]
+      # Only if the cache misses
+      # Based on https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8049#issuecomment-633845028
+      # read_requirements.py should be removed once
+      # https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/11440 is resolved.
+      if: steps.cache.outputs.cache-hit != "true"
+      run: |
+        pip install toml
+        python tests/read_requirements.py | pip install -r /dev/stdin
+    - name: Install Mesa
+      run: pip install --no-deps .
     - name: Test with pytest
       run: pytest --cov=mesa tests/ --cov-report=xml
     - if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu'

tests/read_requirements.py

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+import toml
+
+# This file reads the pyproject.toml and prints out the
+# dependencies and dev dependencies.
+# It is located in tests/ folder so as not to pollute the root repo.
+c = toml.load("pyproject.toml")
+print("\n".join(c["project"]["dependencies"]))
+print("\n".join(c["project"]["optional-dependencies"]["dev"]))