travis-solo is local Travis build runner. travis-solo is itself written in Python and works with:

• CPython 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3
• PyPy 1.9

Supported operating systems:

• GNU/Linux
• OS X

Execute travis-solo in directory containing .travis.yml configuration file. It's return code will be 0 in case of success and non-zero in case of failure.

travis-solo -h or travis-solo --help will display usage information.

Example .travis.yml file:

language: python
python:
    - "2.7"
install:
    - sudo this won't be executed anyway
env:
    - VAR=foo
    - VAR=bar
matrix:
    include:
      - python: "2.7"
        env: VAR=baz

script: echo "VAR is $VAR"

Output:

-> % travis-solo


Build configuration python2.7 (VAR=u'foo') running
Preparing the environment
$ virtualenv --distribute --python=python2.7 /Users/aa/projects/travis-solo/.travis-solo/2.7
Running virtualenv with interpreter /usr/local/bin/python2.7
New python executable in /Users/aa/projects/travis-solo/.travis-solo/2.7/bin/python
Installing distribute...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................done.
Installing pip................done.
"sudo this won't be executed anyway" ignored because it contains sudo reference
$ echo "VAR is $VAR"
VAR is foo


Build configuration python2.7 (VAR=u'bar') running
Preparing the environment
"sudo this won't be executed anyway" ignored because it contains sudo reference
$ echo "VAR is $VAR"
VAR is bar


Build configuration python2.7 (VAR=u'baz') running
Preparing the environment
"sudo this won't be executed anyway" ignored because it contains sudo reference
$ echo "VAR is $VAR"
VAR is baz


Build summary:
python2.7 (VAR=u'foo'): Build succeeded
python2.7 (VAR=u'bar'): Build succeeded
python2.7 (VAR=u'baz'): Build succeeded

-> % echo $?
0

travis-solo can of course run tests for itself.

First of all you need to remember that your local environment is probably very different than Travis' so all those apt-get calls may not work as intended.

• The only type of project supported right now is Python.

• Supported configuration properties:

  • before_install
  • install
  • before_script
  • script
  • after_script
  • python
  • matrix
  • env

• travis-solo sets the following environmental variables:

  • TRAVIS=true
  • CI=true
  • TRAVIS_SOLO=true
  • TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION=... depending on configuration

• Commands involving sudo word are silently discarded at the moment

• When running parallel builds (--jobs X where X != 1) you need to make sure that builds don't operate on the same project files at the same time.

  For example: Python package build process can use build directory to store the results. There is a workaround for that (borrowed from https://github.com/hhatto/autopep8/commit/1c895989422b0a02a32a4383a3f0467b44f20663) - change

  python setup.py install # or similar

  to

  python setup.py build --build-base=".build-$TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION" install

  This change will make sure that each build environment will operate in separate build directory as far as building your package is concerned.

Copyright (C) 2013 Jakub Stasiak

This source code is licensed under MIT license, see LICENSE file for details.