Multi-OS support status

[BanzaiMan]

The following configurations are not currently supported

Mac:

1. Node.js Node.js runtime is not yet available on OS X #2311 (supported as of 2016-04-04)
2. Python Python runtime is not yet available on OS X #2312
3. PHP PHP runtime is not yet available on OS X #2313
4. Perl Perl runtime is not yet available on OS X #2314
5. Erlang and Elixir Erlang and Elixir runtime is not yet available on OS X #2315
6. Non-Java JVM languages Non-Java JVM languages are not yet available on OS X #2316
7. Multiple Java versions Switching JDK via jdk_switcher is not yet available on OS X #2317
8. Go Go runtime is not yet available on OS X #2318
9. Haskell Haskell runtime is not yet available on OS X #2319
10. Android

Linux:

1. Swift (see Swift support for Linux #4053)
2. Objective-C (currently routed to the Mac queue; might be possible with a cross-compiler)

[schlamar]

What about Windows? Any plans?

[rkh]

What about Windows? Any plans?

Yes plans, but nothing we can show yet. See #216.

[BanzaiMan]

If Homebrew can install (or have already installed) a language runtime, you can get around these shortcomings by installing it and managing $PATH. For example, #2318 (comment).

The problem, of course, is that you can't share .travis.yml with the Linux workers, since the language value will have to be different. One may create a separate branch, but the build will be completely disjoint.

[Sannis]

@rkh, Travis docs says that you are at capacity with Mac workers. Is there any plans to change this?

[roidrage]

@Sannis yes, there are, but we don't have a timeline yet.

[Sannis]

Thanks, will waiting for that.

[yuchi]

Is there any update on this? We have a lot of cross-platform code (iOS and Android) that we’d like to set automated tests for.

Installing the Android SDK on an OS X machine could take too much time and get caught by the overall timeout.

[joshk]

Hi Yuchi

Have you tried installing the SDK ondemand? Do you have a build for us to look at?

Thanks

[yuchi]

Actually not. I’ll build one ASAP and get back here with info.

[joshk]

Thank you, that would be very helpful.

[yuchi]

Ok, let’s see if this works: https://github.com/yuchi/ti-cross-ci-experiments

Before running the actual tests I execute this setup script which calls embarkmobile/android-sdk-installer.

[yuchi]

The installer is pretty fast. Currently it hangs on launching the emulator. We’ll work on it.

Anyway, the multi-os/multi-lang environment loos promising.

[dham]

The blog post is still indicating that new requests for multi-OS are not being accepted, but the post appears to be from a year and a half ago. Is this still the case?

[joshk]

Multi OS is enabled by default.

I am closing this issue as we have full documentation on the feature.

[yuchi]

🎉

[chadwhitacre]

Nice! 👏

[dham]

Note that the online documentation at https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/multi-os/ implies that multi-os support is something which has to be explicitly activated for a repository:

"In the repository for which the multi-OS feature is enabled..."

[joshk]

Thanks for finding that @dham!

Updated!

[davidchall]

@joshk That sentence is also found here: https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/workers/os-x-infrastructure/

[plaindocs]

Thanks @davidchall !