[Biopython-dev] [SPAM] Fwd: Important notice about your projects on PyPI

[Peter Cock]

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 3:17 AM, Ben Fulton <ben at benfulton.net> wrote:
> I was able to get an AppVeyor build going. It requires a top-level file and
> a directory with a few configuration files in it. To get everything to build
> I had to make a few changes, though:
>
> - Change the version from 1.65+ to 1.65, as the + isn't recognized by all
> versions

If release tools abort on the plus suffix that's usually a feature :)
We switch to a "proper" version number during the release build
process anyway. We could use something with the git hash but
that isn't OK according to https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/

I suppose a fixed -dev suffix might be a good compromise?

> - Add "2012Server" to the list of Windows versions in which to set
> shell=true. (With that change I do wonder if there is any OS where shell
> needs to be false at all)

Another tweak like this? Yes please for another pull request:
https://github.com/biopython/biopython/commit/780c2459cd1e76cb0a1a030de8b4cdec6dcef7b4

You may be right about shell=True as a simpler option.

> - Change setup.py to import setup from setuptools rather than
> distutils.core. This is required to get bdist_wheel as a setup command. I'm
> not sure if there are any issues with importing just this one function from
> setuptools and the others from distutils.

Not sure, Brad may have some thoughts on this?

> After that I did get several wheels to build, though. If someone wants to
> associate an Appveyor account with the Biopython Github account, I'd be
> happy to submit a pull request with these changes.
>
> Ben Fulton

Is this work on one of your branches?

Do you see Appveyor as offering both continuous integration
testing on Windows (yay!) and a way to build installers?

We have TravisCI for Linux, potentially with Mac OS X support.
http://testing.open-bio.org/biopython/tgrid

We also run a buildbot instance to get nightly cross platform
testing but it depends on volunteer buildslave machines - right
now my old Windows XP box is offline for some reason, while
the Java on another machine is too old for the latest Jython.
http://testing.open-bio.org/biopython/tgrid

Thanks,

Peter