[core-workflow] PEP 512 - Choosing a CI service

[Ryan Gonzalez]

On January 19, 2016 9:37:37 PM CST, Darjus Loktevic <darjus at gmail.com> wrote:
>Quick background: A little while ago I've added TravisCI integration to
>Jython github mirror. Most recently one of Jython contributors asked
>whether we can integrate the xunit XML output of Jython's regrtest with
>TravisCI. The answer was no, which led me to researching other options.
>
>*Why not TravisCI?*
>TravisCI does not support build artifacts. As simple as that, there's
>no
>builtin support for them. After researching for a while, they promised
>to
>add it but have no public timelines. This is quite limiting in my view
>as
>it would be nice to have more than just a binary pass/fail and manually
>dig
>through regrtest output.

Yes it does!

https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/uploading-artifacts/

It even supports putting releases on GitHub:

https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/deployment/releases

and deploying to various other services:

https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/deployment/

>One of the positives for TravisCI is Mac OS X support.
>https://travis-ci.org/jythontools/jython
>
>*Codeship*
>I have not actually used it, but from reading documentation it feels
>more
>like a deployment service and does not have builtin support for xunit.
>
>*Shippable*
>Configuration format is super similar to TravisCI, which made it easy
>to
>try. Has support for both code coverage and xunit test results. Simple
>UI.
>One big negative for me with it is that it is slow, and by slow i mean
>over
>1h versus 25min for TravisCI. Presumably paid version is faster.
>https://app.shippable.com/builds/569eebaed3a5e70d00b309c5
>
>*CircleCI* - My preferred
>Very fast, free tier gives 4 parallel builds (free tier), supports
>xunit,
>supports Mac OS X (have not tried), and supports debugging via SSH
>(which i
>think is a cool feature for those cases when it works on your machine
>and
>not on the build server and there are no clues as to why). Supports
>exporting coverage to several coverage services.
>On the negatives, different configuration format to TravisCI, UI could
>be
>simpler/easier.
>https://circleci.com/gh/darjus/jython/3#tests
>
>Cheers,
>Darjus
>
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