Re: Travis-CI Updates

[Ralph Lange via Core-talk <core-talk@aps.anl.gov>]

What's your motivation to go from Trusty to Xenial? Do you intend to drop support for gcc 4.x?

Note: You can always install newer gcc versions on Travis' Trusty VMs [1], but (AFAIK) there's no documented safe way to downgrade gcc on Xenial.

Cheers,
~Ralph

[1] https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/languages/cpp/#c11c11-and-beyond-and-toolchain-versioning

On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 at 18:31, Johnson, Andrew N. via Core-talk <core-talk@aps.anl.gov> wrote:

For information:

Travis now supports Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 (epics-base currently builds on
trusty)
    https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/reference/xenial/

The "sudo: false" setting in a .travis.yml file now has no effect and
should be removed; all Travis builds since December 7th have taken place
in a VM environment.

I would play around with these but I suspect Ralph would prefer that I
work on the 7.0.2 final release in time for his up-coming deadline, so
someone else could try out making these changes if they feel so inclined
and know how to use Travis...

- Andrew

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