Ah, this is great! Thank you, Tony, Pontus and Elliot!! On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 8:20 AM, Tony Kelman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey folks, an announcement for package authors and users who care about > testing: > > We've had support for Julia package testing on Travis CI > <http://travis-ci.org> for almost 9 months now, ref > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/julia-users/BtCxh4k9hZA/ngUvxdxOxQ8J > if you missed the original announcement. Up to this point we supported the > following settings for which Julia version to test against: > > language: julia > julia: > - release > - nightly > > Release has meant the latest release version in the 0.3.x series, and > nightly has meant the latest nightly build of 0.4-dev master. Once Julia > 0.4.0 gets released, the meaning of these settings will change, where > release will be the latest version in the 0.4.x series, and nightly will be > the latest nightly build of 0.5-dev master. Considering the wide install > base and number of packages that may want to continue supporting 0.3 even > after 0.4.0 gets released, we've just added support for additional version > options in your .travis.yml file. You can now do > > julia: > - release > - nightly > - 0.3 > > Or, if you want to test with specific point releases, you can do that too > (there should not usually be much need for this, but it could be useful > once in a while to compare different point releases): > > julia: > - release > - nightly > - 0.3 > - 0.3.10 > > The oldest point release for which we have generic Linux binaries > available is 0.3.1. If you enable multi-os support for your repository (see > http://docs.travis-ci.com/user/multi-os/), then you can go back as far as > 0.2.0 on OS X. Note that you'd need to replace the default test script with > the old-fashioned `julia test/runtests.jl` since `Pkg.test` and > `--check-bounds=yes` are not supported on Julia version 0.2.x. The > downloads of those versions would fail on Linux workers so you may need to > set up a build matrix with excluded jobs (see > http://docs.travis-ci.com/user/customizing-the-build/#Build-Matrix). > > Let us know if you have any questions or issues. > > Happy testing, > Tony (with thanks to @ninjin and @staticfloat for PR review) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "julia-news" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/julia-news/5640297a-6843-43ab-8485-8ccf9cf9fe3e%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/julia-news/5640297a-6843-43ab-8485-8ccf9cf9fe3e%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >
