Enable continous integration

[faroit]

to solve installation issues it could help to include a number of continuous integration tests that run

• runs the unit tests and installs the package
• test the package installation in a conda environment using different python versions

openjournals/joss-reviews#3434

[yiitozer]

I created a workflow which runs the unit tests in a conda environment using python 3.8 version:
https://github.com/meinardmueller/synctoolbox/actions/runs/1070732431

Would it be necessary to have two more workflows for python 3.7 and 3.9 versions?

[faroit]

great!

Would it be necessary to have two more workflows for python 3.7 and 3.9 versions?

i usually test multiple python version for the pip tests and only a single one conda test because the conda workflows aren't that quick and do not cache that well..

See this example how run matrix builds with different python version using a single workflow

[yiitozer]

Thank you, the example has been very helpful.

I created two pull requests following your instructions:
https://github.com/meinardmueller/synctoolbox/pulls

I will merge them if you confirm it.

[faroit]

@yiitozer both look good to me.

Just noted: there are a bunch of deprecations shown in the unit tests when running with numpy 1.20 (See here). I would expect this package would break with a future numpy version soon, so better to fix this sooner rather than later

[yiitozer]

@faroit, thank you for pointing it out. I fixed it!

[yiitozer]

Can we close this issue?

[faroit]

yep. thanks!