Travis CI and PPA

Jay Weisskopf

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Mar 27, 2013, 1:08:35 PM3/27/13

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I'm interested in setting up Travis CI for a package. However, Travis CI does not provide first-class language support for Julia. It is my understanding that dependencies can be installed in the Travis environment via apt-get, even from PPAs (personal package archives). This leads me to my question: is there an "official" PPA for the Julia language? I found https://launchpad.net/~opencpu/+archive/julia, but I am not sure what state it is in or who maintains it. Additionally, if any third-party Julia packages are currently using Travis CI, I'd be interested in seeing how it's setup.

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Jay Weisskopf

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Mar 27, 2013, 1:29:55 PM3/27/13

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So I just tested ppa:opencpu/julia. The good news is that the package
works correctly and installed painlessly. The bad news is that it is
0.1.x, and I need something newer that supports immutable types. If
there are no newer packages available anywhere, then I suppose I can
throw up my own.

Viral Shah

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Mar 27, 2013, 1:36:01 PM3/27/13

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Until we have some automated nightly builds and PPAs, it would be best for you to package your own ppa.

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Jay Weisskopf

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Mar 27, 2013, 1:44:23 PM3/27/13

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Is generation of Debian packages already part of the build system or
documented anywhere?

Viral Shah

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Mar 27, 2013, 2:08:38 PM3/27/13

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You can see the original debian packge here for 0.1.x.

http://packages.debian.org/sid/julia

The best thing would be if staticfloat can tell us how he built his PPAs.

-viral

Jay Weisskopf

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Mar 27, 2013, 5:52:42 PM3/27/13

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Relevant GitHub issue for bleeding-edge PPA:
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/2031

Jeff Bezanson

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Mar 27, 2013, 6:06:29 PM3/27/13

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What I want in my wildest dreams is to have a nightly build that
installs every package, runs their tests, and automatically emails
failures to the appropriate maintainer. For both julia 0.1 and 0.2 of
course.

Alessandro "Jake" Andrioni

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Mar 27, 2013, 6:59:21 PM3/27/13

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By the way, do we have a standard way to do tests in packages?

John Myles White

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Mar 27, 2013, 8:58:09 PM3/27/13

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Not that I'm aware of, but it seems easy enough to agree on a convention and enforce it. For all my packages, I've constructed a test directory and a run_tests.jl script that specifies and executes tests.

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Neal Fultz

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Mar 28, 2013, 11:27:11 AM3/28/13

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That PPA is run by Jeroen Ooms of the UCLA Stats dept (cc'd).

-Neal

Jeroen Ooms

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Mar 28, 2013, 1:04:41 PM3/28/13

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The PPA are for ubuntu precise and quantal. They are backports of the current package in raring/sid.

I'm not sure what travis-ci does but if you install deb packages on a different system than they were built, bad things might happen.

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