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)
