mkdocs not automatically installed

[adelavega]

In my project, I don't have a requirements.txt files at the top level, as the project has multiple non python components.

As a consequence, this GH Action did not find my requirement file and in turn did not install mkdocs.

This was easy to resolve for me, but IMO it would make more sense if this action installed mkdocs even if no requirements.txt file is found.

[mhausenblas]

I'm not sure I'm following, which branch did you use @adelavega?

[adelavega]

I used nomaterial. What I mean is that if you do not have a mkdocs in your project's top level requirements.txt file, you'll get the following error:

/action.sh: line 53: mkdocs: command not found

IMO, the action should install mkdocs without having to specify this in your project's requirements.txt file, as that is not a requirement of the project, but only the docs.
Also, in my situation where I have the main python project under a subfolder, I needed to put a requirements.txt file just to list mkdocs , for it to be installed. An easy workaround, but ideally this shouldn't be necessary.

Thanks!

[mhausenblas]

Thanks for clarifying @adelavega! I see. WDYT @janoszen?

[ghost]

We should probably install mkdocs in the action.