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+# Configuration file for AppVeyor continuous integration on Windows
+# adapted from MDTraj project (http://mdtraj.org/)
+
+os: Windows Server 2012
+
+environment:
+  matrix: 
+    - python_ver: "2.6"
+      deps: "cython matplotlib numpy scipy six networkx nose setuptools pip PIL"
+    - python_ver: "2.7"
+      deps: "cython matplotlib numpy scipy six networkx nose setuptools pip PIL"
+    #- python_ver: "3.3"
+    - python_ver: "3.4"
+      deps: "cython matplotlib numpy scipy six networkx nose setuptools pip"
+
+install:
+  - ps: (new-object net.webclient).DownloadFile('https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py', 'C:\get-pip.py')
+  - C:\Python27\python.exe c:\get-pip.py
+  - C:\Python27\Scripts\pip.exe install pyyaml
+  - C:\Python27\Scripts\pip.exe install pycosat
+  - C:\Python27\Scripts\pip.exe install conda
+  - C:\Python27\Scripts\conda.exe init
+  - C:\Python27\Scripts\conda.exe update conda --yes --quiet
+  - C:\Python27\Scripts\conda.exe create -n build_env --yes --quiet python=%python_ver% %deps%   
+  - dir C:\Python27\envs\build_env\Scripts\
+  - C:\Python27\envs\build_env\Scripts\pip.exe install wheel
+  - C:\Python27\envs\build_env\python.exe setup.py bdist_wheel bdist_wininst
+
+build_script:
+    - C:\Python27\envs\build_env\Scripts\pip.exe install --pre --no-index --find-links dist/ scikit-image
+
+test_script:
+  - SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\Python27\envs\build_env\Scripts
+  - cd C:\ 
+  - IF "%python_ver%"=="2.7" (
+      C:\Python27\envs\build_env\Scripts\nosetests --exe -v skimage
+    ) ELSE (
+      C:\Python27\envs\build_env\Scripts\nosetests --exe -v skimage || EXIT /B 0
+    )
+
+artifacts:
+  - path: dist\*