Windows CI

[pipermerriam]

Add CI for windows environments via https://www.appveyor.com/

[carver]

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[carver]

Status update

Build is kicking off now, but failing to install requirements-dev: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/JasonCarver/web3-py

[pipermerriam]

This might help: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1710922/how-to-install-pkg-config-in-windows

[pipermerriam]

Alternatively, it might be time to drop eth-testrpc (and the underlying ethereum requirement). Requires building the JSON-RPC webserver component for eth-tester... but probably worth it.

[carver]

With pyethereum gone, the next roadblock is pyethash (used by py-evm).

https://ci.appveyor.com/project/JasonCarver/web3-py/build/1.0.4

Others have faced this issue, esp on Windows. See Consensys/ethjsonrpc#5

The ethash code is C99, which is not well-supported under Windows.

[carver]

It doesn't look plausible to run the test suite on windows anytime soon. Removing from the v4 stable milestone.

[voith]

Travis now supports windows: https://blog.travis-ci.com/2018-10-11-windows-early-release?utm_source=intercom&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=windows_early_release

[fselmo]

closed by #1907