Turn on Mac OS X testing in Travis.

[dhermes]

NOTE: This feature is still in beta according to
https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/multi-os/

See #2136

[tseaver]

In my experience with the zope.* packages, the Mac OS/X builds are hideously slow -- they need more hamsters!

[dhermes]

The osx build failed with a failure to untar a directory holding Python. Talk about beta! I restarted it before I could capture the error, hopefully it will improve.

[dhermes]

Failed again

The command "sudo tar xjf python-2.7.tar.bz2 --directory /" failed and exited with 1 during .

[dhermes]

Found travis-ci/travis-ci#5975 travis-ci/travis-ci#2312

[dhermes]

https://github.com/serverdensity/sd-agent/pull/126/files seems to have a working approach

[dhermes]

OK it turns out osx support is so beta we need to tell Travis that the osx env. is not Python but it is language: generic and then we need to manually install a version of Python ourselves.

[tseaver]

See OSX infra instability. All OSX builds are stopped.

[tseaver]

@dhermes Given the poor state of the OSX support, I'm inclined to hold off and let the pioneers collect the back-arrows: we've got enough on our plate with Travis.

[dhermes]

I somewhat agree, though it seems like brew install python would work on the pre-installed image. Or we could install via conda

[daspecster]

There's always http://hacbook.com... ;)

[dhermes]

How does that help? That's a physical piece of hardware, not a CI. Maybe I'm misreading the website?

[daspecster]

Well you get OSX for cheap so someone could put one of those in a corner someplace and then just open up the IP. Sorry @dhermes, it was more of a joke than a serious suggestion.

Well partially I guess, if I setup a Jenkins server, I may be able to find an OSX host to set it up on for the private repo. Just trying to brainstorm a little.

[daspecster]

Looks like a lot of the OSX hosted CI has been shutdown? There are some references to services supporting it and now you can't find anything on their sites.

I found...
http://devcenter.bitrise.io/docs/available-stacks

It looks like even CircleCI may only support iOS builds and not give you direct CLI access to an OSX vm.
https://circleci.com/docs/ios-builds-on-os-x/#supported-build-and-test-tools

HostedCI looks like it's been kind of dead. Last blog post was about xcode in 2014 and I don't see any documentation on OSX.
https://hosted-ci.com/blog/

Buildbot.net is a python based build system but we would have to self host :(.
https://github.com/buildbot/buildbot

[tseaver]

Do we have any reason to expect a homebrew-driven bulid to fail? I mean, if we were trying to test with Apple's b0rken system python, that would be one thing....

[dhermes]

I agree @tseaver

[tseaver]

We can re-open or rework later if we decide testing on Mac is worth the pain.