GitHub actions and Apache Ant JDK 8 builds

[jeremydouglass]

This is not a feature request -- it is an observation / suggestion.

I just saw that the GitHub Actions beta now supports a workflow "Java with Ant: Build and test a Java project with Apache Ant."

A quick glance at a sample workflow shows it support JDK 8 -- not sure if you can specify the specific version, e.g. 8u202, but it seems to fit processing dev needs pretty well, and might be worth looking at using this for build workflows / ci.

Processing would need to sign up for Actions here:

https://github.com/features/actions/signup/

[jeremydouglass]

@sampottinger I seem to recall you were also potentially interested in ci of this kind for your branch.

[sampottinger]

Hey there!

Totally. Just for reference - I do have CI currently enabled for https://github.com/sampottinger/processing via Travis and CD was enabled previously (deploy to S3). To see the builds go to https://travis-ci.org/sampottinger/processing/builds. For the PRs, see sampottinger#87 (without CD) and sampottinger#70 (with CD). I chose Travis because we need (hopefully free) mac containers in order to run the code sign process.

That said, https://github.com/features/actions/signup/ is interesting... I'll take a closer look! Thanks for the mention!

[sampottinger]

Just to link this in... Relates to #5753! Thanks again @jeremydouglass

[benfry]

Fixed with benfry/processing4#1 and continued development happening at https://github.com/processing/processing4