Is it possible to run 2 seperate .travis.yml files from the same github repository

Question

My current use case is that I use travis-ci very happily to run my test cases for a python project. This reports a fail or pass based on whether the py.unit tests pass.

I would like to add pep8 checking to this repository as well, but I don't want my core functionality tests to fail if there is some incorrectly formatted code, but I would like to know about it.

Any possible ways of dealing with this would be useful, but my immediate thought was, is there any way of having 2 separate test runners, running off the same repository? ".travis.yml" running the main tests, and a separate process monitoring my pep8 compliance from ".travis2.yml" for example.

I would then have 2 jobs running, and could see if my core functionality tests are still OK at a glance(from the github badge for example), but also how my pep8 compliance is going.

Thanks

Mark

Answer 1

From http://docs.travis-ci.com/user/customizing-the-build/ :

Travis CI uses .travis.yml file in the root of your repository to learn about your project and how you want your builds to be executed.

A mixture of matrix and allow_failurescould be used in the single .travis.yml file to address your use case of having two jobs run where one build reports your functionality tests and a second build gives you feedback on your pep8 compliance,

For example, the following .travis.yml file cause two builds to occur on traivs. In only one of the builds (i.e. where PEP=true), the pep8 check would occur. If the pep8-check failed it wouldn't be considered a failure due to allow_failures:

language: python

env:
  - PEP=true
  - PEP=false
matrix:
  allow_failures:
    - env: PEP=true
script:
  - if $PEP ; then pep8 ; fi
  - python -m unittest discover