[Numpy-discussion] Weird Travis-CI bugs in the release 1.7.x branch

[Ondřej Čertík]

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Ondřej Čertík <ondrej.certik at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
>> On 4 Dec 2012 02:27, "Ondřej Čertík" <ondrej.certik at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I started to work on the release again and noticed weird failures at
>>> Travis-CI:
>> […]
>>>   File
>>> "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/core/tests/test_iterator.py",
>>
>> The problem is that Travis started installing numpy in all python
>> virtualenvs by default, and our Travis build script just runs setup.py
>> install, which is too dumb to notice that there is a numpy already installed
>> and just overwrites it. The file mentioned above doesn't even exist in 1.7,
>> it's left over from the 1.6 install.
>>
>> I did a PR to fix this in master a few days ago, you want to back port that.
>> (Sorry for lack of link, I'm on my phone.)
>
> Thanks! I backported it in:
>
> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/2786
>
> Nice, I was not aware of the fact that "pip install ." fixes this
> problem with setup.py ---
> I've burned myself with this so many times already and I always forget
> about this bug.

It's fixed in the release branch now. So both master and the release branch
pass all tests on Travis again.

Thanks for your help.

Ondrej