Working on getting linting to work: add requirements file (based on what nvdaAddonWorkflows/.github/workflows/lint.yaml does).

Trying to force a more modern version of flake8

Author: NSoiffer

.github/workflows/lint.yaml

@@ -14,10 +14,6 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: windows-latest
 
     steps:
-    - name: Checkout reusable workflows
-      uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      with:
-        repository: nvdaes/nvdaAddonWorkflows
     - name: Checkout code
       uses: actions/checkout@v3
       with:
@@ -26,7 +22,9 @@ jobs:
       uses: actions/setup-python@v4
       with:
         python-version: 3.11
+    - name: Install flake8
+      run: pip install flake8
     - name: Install dependencies
-      run: pip install -r requirements.txt
+      run: pip install -r .github/workflows/requirements.txt
     - name: Lint
       run: flake8 code/addon --max-line-length=130 --extend-exclude=addon/globalPlugins/MathCAT/yaml/*

.github/workflows/requirements.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+####### requirements.txt #######
+#
+###### Requirements for automated lint ######
+flake8 ~= 3.8
+flake8-tabs == 2.1.0