CI: Reduce number of CI jobs (don't run on Julia 1.9, don't run coverage-disabled jobs)

Author: DilumAluthge

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ jobs:
       matrix:
         julia-version:
           - '1.6' # previous LTS
-          - '1.9'
           - '1.10' # current LTS
           - '1.11' # current stable
           #
@@ -71,18 +70,7 @@ jobs:
           - macos-14 # macos-14 = Apple Silicon.
         coverage:
           - 'true'
-          - 'false' # needed for Julia 1.9+ to test from a session using pkgimages
         exclude:
-          # For now, we'll disable testing 32-bit Julia 1.9 on all operating systems.
-          # TODO: remove the following once we fix the tests for 32-bit Julia 1.9 .
-          - julia-version: '1.9'
-            julia-wordsize: '32'
-          # For now, we'll disable testing 32-bit Julia 1.9 on Windows.
-          # TODO: remove the following once we fix the tests for 32-bit Julia 1.9 on Windows.
-          - github-runner: windows-latest
-            julia-version: '1.9'
-            julia-wordsize: '32'
-          #
           # Julia 1.6 did not support Apple Silicon:
           - github-runner: macos-14 # macos-14 = Apple Silicon.
             julia-version: '1.6'
@@ -94,14 +82,6 @@ jobs:
           # We don't have 32-bit builds of Julia for Apple Silicon macOS:
           - github-runner: macos-14 # macos-14 = Apple Silicon.
             julia-wordsize: '32'
-          #
-          # We don't need to run the coverage=false job for Julia < 1.9:
-          - julia-version: '1.6'
-            coverage: 'false'
-          - julia-version: '1.7'
-            coverage: 'false'
-          - julia-version: '1.8'
-            coverage: 'false'
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@eef61447b9ff4aafe5dcd4e0bbf5d482be7e7871 # v4.2.1
       - uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@9b79636afcfb07ab02c256cede01fe2db6ba808c # v2.6.0