[Numpy-discussion] AppVeyor

[Charles R Harris]

On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 8:11 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 6:43 PM, Charles R Harris
> <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
> >>
> [...]
> >> Also, am I correct that these are win64 builds only? Anyone know if it
> >> would be easy to add win32?
> >
> >
> > Don't know. I also noticed a bunch of permission errors with temp files.
> > There are some failing tests that are filtered out with our preliminary
> > appveyor script.
>
> Yeah, looking at the logs for
>
> https://ci.appveyor.com/project/charris/numpy/build/1.0.5/job/9lkl8940dvhrml2v
>
> https://ci.appveyor.com/project/charris/numpy/build/1.0.5/job/awgp7fnne15jwb21
> there appears to be some configuration weirdness that makes temp files
> unwriteable so all the tests that use those fail, plus some mysterious
> issue with distutils.msvc9compiler, plus what's probably a genuine
> error in mtrand.pyx where it is expecting 'long' to be 64 bits (which
> it is on every 64-bit platform we support *except* for win64), plus
> what's probably a genuine problem with test_diophantine_fuzz (py3 only
> -- maybe some PyInt/PyLong transition issue?).
>
> > Nathaniel, if you have an appveyor account that lets you have access to
> the
> > numpy repo, could you try enabling it and see what happens? I note the
> > matplotlib dashboard is on mdboom's account.
>
> I have the option of clicking "add a project" and then selecting
> github / numpy / numpy from the list, but AFAICT this seems to create
> a second independent copy of the project in appveyor's system, which
> I'm pretty sure is not what we want?
>

Do you mean that we ended up with double the appveyor testing, one for each
of our accounts? The process you describe is what I did.


>
> The interface is extraordinarily confusing. They really need to hire
> an editor for their docs / messages :-(
>
>
Yes, they do.


> (It's also astonishingly slow -- like 30 minutes per build, and builds
> run in serial...)
>
>
There is that.

Chuck
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