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astropy / package-template

Template for packages that use Astropy. Maintainer: @astrofrog
http://docs.astropy.org/projects/package-template/en/latest/
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Use xenial for Travis CI #423

Closed pllim closed 5 years ago

pllim commented 5 years ago

https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/reference/xenial/

bsipocz commented 5 years ago

Hmm, is this better than the default? How often the best way changes? E.g. packages using the template may not be as quick to change it when this becomes obsolete.

astrofrog commented 5 years ago

Is there a way to specify to use the latest distribution?

pllim commented 5 years ago

Huh, maybe xenial is the default now... I see that astropy core uses xenial and no dist is specified there. It is unclear to me how to specify latest... Did I miss something in https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/reference/overview/ ? Maybe we should be using bionic instead?

bsipocz commented 5 years ago

I think it doesn't matter much. We're not that sensitive to the compiler stuff and besides only use the very basics. If there are any reasons to change it in repos (getting 20s quicker builds, etc) I'm on board, my only resistance is with the template. Changing the CI config files will never be easy with auto PRs, and thus being specific now may bite back in the end (e.g. tons of repos still don't use stages, and apt install unnecessarily as they don't keep up with the template changes).

pllim commented 5 years ago

Yeah, good point.

saimn commented 5 years ago

xenial is the default now: https://blog.travis-ci.com/2019-04-15-xenial-default-build-environment