Unpin theano (#2777)

* Unpin theano

* test setup

* setting MKL_THREADING_LAYER=GNU

* Don't use mkl-service

* Add nose

* Add back mkl-service, for reasons

* Try setting threading layer

* Use export instead of set

* Add pylint to requirements-dev

* intermedia fix

test setting `njobs=2`

Author: ColCarroll

.travis.yml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 language: python
-sudo: false
+sudo: required
 
 cache:
   directories:
@@ -15,12 +15,11 @@ before_install:
   - . ./scripts/install_miniconda.sh
   - sh -e /etc/init.d/xvfb start
   - export DISPLAY=":99.0"
+  - export MKL_THREADING_LAYER=GNU
 
 install:
   - . ./scripts/create_testenv.sh
-  - pip install coveralls pylint 
-  - pip install travis-sphinx==2.0.0
-  - pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
+  - pip install coveralls travis-sphinx==2.0.0
 
 env:
   - PYTHON_VERSION=2.7 FLOATX='float32' TESTCMD="--durations=10 --ignore=pymc3/tests/test_examples.py --cov-append --ignore=pymc3/tests/test_distributions_random.py --ignore=pymc3/tests/test_variational_inference.py --ignore=pymc3/tests/test_shared.py --ignore=pymc3/tests/test_smc.py --ignore=pymc3/tests/test_updates.py --ignore=pymc3/tests/test_posteriors.py --ignore=pymc3/tests/test_sampling.py"

pymc3/tests/test_sgfs.py

@@ -31,6 +31,6 @@ def f(x, a, b, c):
         pm.Normal('y', mu=y, observed=y_obs)
 
         step_method = pm.SGFS(batch_size=batch_size, step_size=1., total_size=total_size)
-        trace = pm.sample(draws=draws, step=step_method, init=None)
+        trace = pm.sample(draws=draws, step=step_method, init=None, njobs=2)
 
     np.testing.assert_allclose(np.mean(trace['abc'], axis=0), np.asarray([a, b, c]), rtol=0.1)

pymc3/tests/test_text_backend.py

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ def test_supports_sampler_stats(self):
         with pm.Model():
             pm.Normal("mu", mu=0, sd=1, shape=2)
             db = text.Text(self.name)
-            pm.sample(20, tune=10, init=None, trace=db)
+            pm.sample(20, tune=10, init=None, trace=db, njobs=2)
 
     def teardown_method(self):
         bf.remove_file_or_directory(self.name)

requirements-dev.txt

@@ -6,12 +6,14 @@ Keras>=2.0.8
 matplotlib>=1.5.0
 mock>=2.0.0; python_version < '3.4'
 nbsphinx>=0.2.13
+nose>=1.3.7
 nose-parameterized==0.6.0
 numdifftools>=0.9.20
 numpy>=1.11.0
 numpydoc==0.7.0
 pycodestyle>=2.3.1
 pyflakes>=1.5.0
+pylint>=1.7.4
 pytest-cov>=2.5.1
 pytest>=3.0.7
 recommonmark>=0.4.0

requirements.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-theano==0.9.0
+theano>=1.0.0
 pandas>=0.18.0
 patsy>=0.4.0
 joblib>=0.9

scripts/create_testenv.sh

@@ -45,10 +45,10 @@ if [ ${PYTHON_VERSION} == "2.7" ]; then
     pip install mock
 fi
 
-pip install pytest pytest-cov nose-parameterized pylint
+pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
 
 # Install untested, non-required code (linter fails without them)
-pip install ipython ipywidgets numdifftools
+pip install ipython ipywidgets
 
 # matplotlib is not required for the library, but is for tests
 pip install matplotlib