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Continuous Integration#

Supported interpreters#

pip support a variety of Python interpreters:

  • CPython 3.8

  • CPython 3.9

  • CPython 3.10

  • CPython 3.11

  • CPython 3.12

  • Latest PyPy3

on different operating systems:

  • Linux

  • Windows

  • macOS

and on different architectures:

  • x64

  • x86

so 42 hypothetical interpreters.

Checks#

pip CI runs different kind of tests:

  • lint (defined in .pre-commit-config.yaml)

  • docs

  • vendoring (is the src/_internal/_vendor directory cleanly vendored)

  • unit tests (present in tests/unit)

  • “integration” tests (mostly present in tests/functional)

  • package (test the packaging steps)

Since lint, docs, vendoring and package tests only need to run on a pip developer/contributor machine, they only need to be tested on the x64 variant of the 3 different operating systems, and when an interpreter needs to be specified it’s ok to require the latest CPython interpreter.

So only unit tests and integration tests would need to be run with the different interpreters.

Services#

pip test suite and checks are distributed on GitHub Actions which provides free executors for open source packages.

Current run tests#

Developer tasks#

OS

docs

lint

vendoring

packaging

Linux

GitHub

GitHub

GitHub

GitHub

Windows

GitHub

GitHub

GitHub

GitHub

macOS

GitHub

GitHub

GitHub

GitHub

Actual testing#

interpreter

unit

integration

Windows

x86

CP3.8

CP3.9

CP3.10

CP3.11

CP3.12

PyPy3

x64

CP3.8

GitHub

GitHub

CP3.9

CP3.10

CP3.11

GitHub

GitHub

CP3.12

PyPy3

Linux

x86

CP3.8

CP3.9

CP3.10

CP3.11

CP3.12

PyPy3

x64

CP3.8

GitHub

GitHub

CP3.9

GitHub

GitHub

CP3.10

GitHub

GitHub

CP3.11

GitHub

GitHub

CP3.12

GitHub

GitHub

PyPy3

macOS

arm64

CP3.8

CP3.9

CP3.10

CP3.11

CP3.12

PyPy3

x64

CP3.8

GitHub

GitHub

CP3.9

GitHub

GitHub

CP3.10

GitHub

GitHub

CP3.11

GitHub

GitHub

CP3.12

GitHub

GitHub

PyPy3