[pycsw-devel] pycsw on travis-ci now

[Tom Kralidis]

FYI pycsw master is now hooked up to travis-ci (http://travis-ci.org/#!/geopython/pycsw) for continuous integration (general concept: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration).  travis-ci is a FOSS, hosted CI solution, and runs from a GitHub hook to test every commit to master.
 
The actual tests are our test suites (https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/tree/master/tester).  The idea is to make sure the code can always build and pass the unit tests under 1..n build scenarios.
 
We currently have one build scenario.  Details:

- Python 2.6 and 2.7
- SQLite3 db
- SQLAlchemy ORM
- Python's native WSGI implementation (wsgiref)

You can see the current build status as well as build history at http://travis-ci.org/#!/geopython/pycsw.  When you click a build you see the exact output of what happened.
 
There were some changes to master as result (like tightening dependency versions).
 
We are looking to add more build scenarios, namely:

- CGI with apache2
- apache2 and mod_wsgi in pycsw-as-a-library mode

Over time, we will do more build scenarios (e.g. PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL+PostGIS, MySQL, GeoNode, Open Data Catalog, etc.).  We should look at the possibilities of supporting Windows builds too (default is Ubuntu).

As well, it looks like travis-ci supports testing GitHub pull requests, to which the results get pushed back as a notice in the PR discussion, so this is very useful too.
 
The overall spirit is to monitor/test our changes (and implications of them) with much more rigour now that GeoNode and Open Data Catalog are downstream projects.

Comments, ideas and suggestions are welcome!

Cheers
 
..Tom