New release soon?

[otizonaizit]

Hi,

there are some bugs that are making MDP unusable on modern systems (either with newer Pythons or with newer numpy/scipy). In particular, we need a release which contains #83 , which would take care of this: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1007813 . Also #92 needs to be fixed.

Any plans to finish the ongoing work? Or should I try to cut a release right now? @Stewori , @NiMlr, @nkgevorgyan : what's your take on this?

[Stewori]

Luckily, Nils jumped in for #92. Since #83 was merged, are we good to go then? I just had a look at #80, but do not really remember why it stalled. Probably we should leave that out as it has lower priority.

[NiMlr]

It looks like we will have to migrate from TravisCI (disabled the free tier a while ago) to (I propose) Github Actions.

[Stewori]

Yes, I just noticed the tests were not running (but I suppose you tested successfully on your computer). I never had the time and energy to look into Github Actions config and the switch from Travis. However, a friendly dev contributed recently the same kind of switch to my project pytypes: Stewori/pytypes@aa68ed2
That PR can serve as a blueprint for what needs to be changed. There was one addition to the change later here: Stewori/pytypes@6fb16a5

[otizonaizit]

hi all, any progress with the new release?

[Stewori]

@otizonaizit I cannot tackle this at the moment. If you want, please feel free to release the current state after merging #94. I think the core issues were fixed. Tests are not running online ATM but as a preparation for the release you would run local tests anyway. That must do it for now.

[Debilski]

Added GitHub Actions in #95

[Stewori]

Thank you, @Debilski . I merged #94, so tests have a chance to pass.

[NiMlr]

There is not much happening in #80. See the diff.
It should not cause problems if merged.