Specify a minimum version requirement

[JJ]

Check out Raku/examples#53 for an explanation. Use either 6.d or 2018.11, whatever is the most suitable. Add also version checks in the Travis conf.

[paultcochrane]

After looking at the Travis conf, it doesn't seem to be relevant to do any version checks there since everything comes from the docker image. Or would you like the docker image to start and then the Travis config to check the available Raku version in there? Somehow that solution feels complicated. @JJ what do you think?

[JJ]

Actually, there are docker images for most versions. Additionally, there are GitHub actions for different OSs. So maybe Gh actions is the way to go. Check what I just did for Pod-to-cached should you need an example

[paultcochrane]

Do you mean this commit: perl6/Pod-To-Cached@58a2752 ?

[paultcochrane]

Actually, there are docker images for most versions. Additionally, there are GitHub actions for different OSs. So maybe Gh actions is the way to go. Check what I just did for Pod-to-cached should you need an example

Do you propose that the Travis config explicitly use e.g. the 6.d version? The current version uses raku-test which doesn't contain a version number in the name. Is there a list of docker images that one should use? I've found your docker images (https://hub.docker.com/u/jjmerelo) but they don't mention a particular version of Raku. Do you mean maybe the rakudo-star docker image(s)? If you want to have GH actions then I feel that that task should be in a new ticket. Sorry for all the questions, unfortunately I don't find it very clear from your comment what you would like done here.

[JJ]

Do you mean this commit: perl6/Pod-To-Cached@58a2752 ?

Correct, that's the one.

[JJ]

Actually, there are docker images for most versions. Additionally, there are GitHub actions for different OSs. So maybe Gh actions is the way to go. Check what I just did for Pod-to-cached should you need an example

Do you propose that the Travis config explicitly use e.g. the 6.d version? The current version uses raku-test which doesn't contain a version number in the name. Is there a list of docker images that one should use? I've found your docker images

raku-test always contains the latest released version. And you are right, that one does not have tags; alpine-raku does. I will see if there's a good way of creating derived containers with tags

[paultcochrane]

Would it make sense to extend the list of docker images available in Raku/docker? That way one could point to community-maintained images.

[JJ]

It might, but I'm not totally sure who's actually uploading them to Docker hub. Again, it would make sense to create a GitHub Action that uploaded them automatically to Github registry...

[JJ]

I'm checking if there's some automated way to create Docker images with tags out of tagged base images, and yep, there is. However, it involves scripting the build process. I haven't done it so far. Again, probably easier with GitHub Docker Registry.