update CI scripts to allow running CI on the desktop (see below)

* add script to run 'act' local github actions tool (lets devs check github
actions on their local machine)
* Update various github actions to latest (so they can work with the 'act'
tool)
* change a few places where python version was not properly quoted as a
string (act yaml parser is more strict than the github version)
* update pylint min-version to work with recent github actions
* remove pandas/riden requirement (that's in my other branch for now)

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -18,23 +18,24 @@ jobs:
           - "3.10"
           - "3.11"
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Install Python 3
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v1
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
       - name: Uninstall meshtastic
         run: |
-          pip3 uninstall meshtastic
+          pip3 uninstall -y meshtastic
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip
           pip3 install poetry
       - name: Install meshtastic from local
         run: |
+          poetry install
           poetry run meshtastic --version
       - name: Run pylint
         run: poetry run pylint meshtastic examples/ --ignore-patterns ".*_pb2.pyi?$"
       - name: Check types with mypy
-        run: mypy meshtastic/
+        run: poetry run mypy meshtastic/
       - name: Run tests with pytest
         run: poetry run pytest --cov=meshtastic
       - name: Generate coverage report
@@ -60,10 +61,12 @@ jobs:
           - "3.10"
           - "3.11"
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Install Python 3
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v1
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
       - name: Install meshtastic from local
         run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip3 install poetry
           poetry install
-          meshtastic --version
+          poetry run meshtastic --version

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ jobs:
 
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Bump version
         run: >-
@@ -48,9 +48,9 @@ jobs:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
       - name: Set up Python 3.9
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: 3.9
+          python-version: "3.9"
 
       - name: Install pypa/build
         run: >-
@@ -79,14 +79,14 @@ jobs:
   #   needs: release_create
   #   steps:
   #     - name: Checkout
-  #       uses: actions/checkout@v3
+  #       uses: actions/checkout@v4
   #       with:
   #         ref: ${{ needs.release_create.outputs.new_sha }}
 
   #     - name: Set up Python 3.9
-  #       uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+  #       uses: actions/setup-python@v5
   #       with:
-  #         python-version: 3.9
+  #         python-version: "3.9"
 
   #     - name: Setup code signing
   #       env:
@@ -125,14 +125,14 @@ jobs:
     needs: release_create
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           ref: ${{ needs.release_create.outputs.new_sha }}
 
       - name: Set up Python 3.9
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: 3.9
+          python-version: "3.9"
 
       - name: Build
         run: |
@@ -166,14 +166,14 @@ jobs:
     needs: release_create
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           ref: ${{ needs.release_create.outputs.new_sha }}
 
       - name: Set up Python 3.9
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: 3.9
+          python-version: "3.9"
 
       - name: Build
         run: |

.github/workflows/update_protobufs.yml

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ jobs:
 
     steps:
       - name: Checkout code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           submodules: true
 

.gitignore

@@ -16,3 +16,4 @@ __pycache__
 examples/__pycache__
 meshtastic.spec
 .hypothesis/
+coverage.xml

bin/run-ci-local.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# This script lets you run github ci actions locally
+
+# also: we only run one of the 4 matrix tests, because otherwise it absolutely hammers the CPU (so many containers and threads)
+act -P ubuntu-latest=-self-hosted --matrix "python-version:3.8"