[Biopython-dev] Travis-CI to complement BuildBot

[Peter Cock]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Dear Biopythoneers,
>
> We now have more automated testing being done, thanks
> to Travis-CI (Travis Continuous Integration):
> http://travis-ci.org/#!/biopython/biopython
>
> What this means is that whenever a commit is pushed to
> https://github.com/biopython/biopython/ it should trigger
> Travis to run the unit tests on their farm of Debian 64bit
> virtual machines.
>
> Travis-CI http://travis-ci.org/#!/biopython/biopython
> Pros: Testing every time a commit is pushed, should
> be minimal maintenance effort for us.
> Cons: Only tests on 64bit Debian Linux, currently
> doesn't include Jython, and only an older PyPy

Correction - the Travis virtual machines are 32bit.

And as mentioned elsewhere on the thread, with a bit
more work, we can use Travis to test under Jython and
PyPy 1.8 and 1.9 - just getting the details sorted out...
http://travis-ci.org/#!/peterjc/biopython/builds/1682565

Peter