[python-committers] Travis CI: macOS is now blocking -- remove macOS from Travis CI?

[Nick Coghlan]

On 20 September 2017 at 12:04, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Python tests are very stable on macOS (on buildbots). So yes, it's an issue
> specific to Travis.

Although as Alex explains, that isn't really Travis CI's *fault* -
it's an artifact of the licensing design for macOS being generally
hostile to the "dynamic worker pool" model typically used for
pre-merge CI infrastructure management.

macOS is much more amenable to the post-commit model we use for the
buildbot fleet, since we're not trying to manage an elastic pool of
machines there - we have a static set of machines that work through
the merged commits.

Cheers,
NIck.

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