Thanks for posting this to the list, Michael. We definitely need to do something about Travis, since the legacy infrastructure is failing regularly with network timeouts.
If I understand it right, it won't be suitable for completely replacing depexts, since they specify OS dependencies for binary packages. However, it can eliminate the need for the ["source" "linux"] depext which currently downloads a shell script and runs it. For instance, the MaxminDB bindings just posted could use a way to install the C library, but there are no Ubuntu packages available: https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository/pull/4754 -anil > On 19 Aug 2015, at 07:25, Michael Grünewald <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear opam-devel’lers, > > for a few days I moved my OCaml repositories to the new container-based > continuous integration service from Travis. I had a brief off-list > exchange with Anil, who meant this topic would be interesting to > list members, especially for depexts. > > In my setting I can use Travis's cache to store several switches and > run my test-suite for each of these switches. I wrote a blog article > describing the setup, if you did not read it already, it is here: > > > http://unix-workstation.blogspot.de/2015/08/opam-and-bsd-owl-support-for-travis-ci.html > > > As an appetiser, here is the script running the test suite, as you > can expect it, the TRAVIS_OCAML_VERSION is defined in .travis.yml > as part of the test matrix environment. > > INSTALL_PREFIX="${HOME}/.local" > eval $(opam config env --switch ${TRAVIS_OCAML_VERSION}) > autoconf > ./configure --prefix="${INSTALL_PREFIX}" > bmake -I "${INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/bsdowl” all > > The setup introduces a special .travis.opam file enumerating the > switches that need to be installed and the dependencies of the opam > package being tested. Packages can be installed using their definition > in the repository or by pinning a git repository. > > Behind the scenes, a script from the Anvil package is at work: > > > https://github.com/michipili/anvil/blob/master/subr/anvil_travisci_autoinstall.sh > > > Besides the blog link above, here are a list of repositories using > this new setup: > > https://github.com/michipili/broken > https://github.com/michipili/mixture > https://github.com/michipili/lemonade > https://github.com/michipili/getopts > https://github.com/michipili/configuration > > @Anil – Am I right understanding it would be interesting to move > depext CI setup to the container-based version? If so, I could > probably take a look at before the end of the week. > > > Best, > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > opam-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ocaml.org/listinfo/opam-devel _______________________________________________ opam-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ocaml.org/listinfo/opam-devel
