Use latest Saxon 9.6.0-10 for ci tests

[tofi86]

Saxon 9.6 series got an update in December 2016

[cirulls]

Thanks for your pull request.

Using Saxon 9.6.0-7 instead of 9.6.0-10 version was actually a choice made in #43:

Although the latest 9.6 is 9.6.0.10, I chose 9.6.0.7 just because it's the one bundled currently in oXygen.

We can trigger tests for all three versions of Saxon, that would not be a problem. The only drawback is that running the test suite via AppVeyor for the Windows environment will take a bit longer (Travis doesn't have this problem as it runs tests in parallel).

I assign the review to @AirQuick as he (or she?) did the initial implementation for AppVeyor.

[tofi86]

Using Saxon 9.6.0-7 instead of 9.6.0-10 version was actually a choice made in #43:

oh, okay... yeah, well, so it's upt to you and @AirQuick whether you want to accept this, test three versions or decline the PR...

[AirQuick]

While 9.6.0.8 was released in 2015-12, oXygen still sticks to 9.6.0.7 to date. So I (he) fancied 9.6.0.7 might be widely used. No other specific reason. It's ok to just move on to 9.6.0.10.

By the way, is Syncro Soft aware of this repository? Will they sooner or later consider updating XSpec in oXygen based on this repository?

[tofi86]

By the way, is Syncro Soft aware of this repository? Will they sooner or later consider updating XSpec in oXygen based on this repository?

We (@paginagmbh) are an oXygen partner. I can give @georgebina a shout and will also write an email to their support team.

[cirulls]

By the way, is Syncro Soft aware of this repository? Will they sooner or later consider updating XSpec in oXygen based on this repository?

Funny that you mention this, straight after the release I sent a message to this Oxygen Forum asking to try out the latest release and possibly integrate in the future. I'm waiting for the message approval, I'll post the link here when it's visible so you can follow their reply.

I don't mind testing for all three versions of Saxon as I would like to keep the Saxon version used by Oxygen. Which option would you prefer:

1. Run tests with Saxon 9.7.0-14, 9.6.0-7, and 9.6.0-10 (aka request changes to the pull request)
2. Run tests with Saxon 9.7.0-14 and 9.6.0-10 (aka accept the pull request)
3. Run tests with Saxon 9.7.0-14 and 9.6.0-7 (aka reject the pull request)

I'm fine with option 1. @tofi86 and @AirQuick : which option would you prefer?

[AirQuick]

I'm fine with 1.
If we go for 1 and if AppVeyor is annoyingly slow, I think we may retract 9.6.0-7 (or -10) only from AppVeyor.

[tofi86]

Okay, going to implement #1

[tofi86]

Done. Waiting for CI (timing) results…

[AirQuick]

Funny they went down 😮 https://appveyor.statuspage.io/

[tofi86]

hahaha, hope it wasn't me 😂

[AirQuick]

@cirulls , can you cancel the job?
Maybe it is straying like this.

[AirQuick]

The oXygen forum thread is now visible. Thank you for pinging them.

[cirulls]

I cancelled the hanging job, restarted a new build and tests are passing for all three versions of Saxon: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/xspec/xspec/build/1.0.56 It took about 5 minutes to run the test suite on AppVeyor. I guess it is fine but if it reaches 10 minutes in the future we should probably look at running tests in parallel on AppVeyor.

[cirulls]

By the way, is Syncro Soft aware of this repository? Will they sooner or later consider updating XSpec in oXygen based on this repository?

Alex Jitianu from Oxygen replied @tofi86's email:

Oxygen ships a quite old version of XSpec so we will definitely test the new version. If all goes well it will be present in Oxygen 19.0.