[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/2] ci: Introduce travis builds for github repositories

[Luca Boccassi]

On Wed, 2019-02-27 at 10:53 -0500, Aaron Conole wrote:
> Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> writes:
> 
> > 27/02/2019 15:35, Aaron Conole:
> > > Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> writes:
> > > > 07/02/2019 23:01, Michael Santana:
> > > > > +python3.5 -m pip install --upgrade meson --user
> > > > 
> > > > Which distributions have python3.5?
> > > > It looks very specific.
> > > 
> > > I agree, could probably just be python3 we need to check and see
> > > if we
> > > can just use that.
> > > 
> > > But, we did need the upgrade.
> > > 
> > > Travis environment comes up with ubuntu 14.04, which includes
> > > python3.4,
> > > and the requisite version of meson needs python3.5 or higher.
> > 
> > It could be a python --version check then?
> 
> Well, I don't know what the purpose of the version check would
> be.  We
> can tailor the environments.  Just need to pass the right
> information,
> that's all.  I think we'll make it look nicer, though.  We can do any
> environment specific fix ups in the prepare scripts, which I think
> makes
> sense.  Then the build script can be a bit more generic.

Travis supports Ubuntu 16.04 images now, which have python 3.5, I'd
suggest to just use them (dist: xenial) so you can skip all the checks
and the manual installations.

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi