[chrissoundz]

Struggling with this today, and numerous other days. It's so bad. Stop trying to build an operating system out of YAML. I'll always use and recommend Gitlab from now on.

And what the earth is an "actions" anyway? How on earth is simple bash functions not just as suitable here? Instead you have some weird YAML scripting language. It's so bad. Why. Somebody please tell me. I'm losing my mind. It is a good reflection of the rest of the world though and why the worlds infrastructure is crumbling in many places.

[giobox]

Executing bash statements/scripts/functions is the thing I struggle least with in GH actions personally, it's remarkably easy to execute shell steps. If you really want your entire build to be a shellscript the action executes, you can do just that with very little YAML.

[Aeolun]

Except it doesn’t execute quite like in bash, and every single command is it’s own little island.

So exporting an environment variable doesn’t work for example.

[trallnag]

What are you talking about? You can put a whole Bash script into a single step.