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Maik Riechert

14 Sep, 2014 10:07 AM

Hi,

first, I absolutely love your service. I'm developing a Python wrapper for a native library and without AppVeyor I would have never started to actually support Windows and build binaries for it. So, thanks that you offer this for free for open-source, it's great!

Now, to my small issue. I setup my Travis CI and AppVeyor scripts such that they deploy to PyPI whenever I push a new tag. The problem is that AppVeyor doesn't start a build when I just push a tag, whereas Travis CI does. At the moment, I work around that by manually starting a new build in AppVeyor just after I pushed the tag.

Did I miss something or is my scenario really not working currently? I thought it would be quite common to automate deployment on new version tags.

Cheers
Maik

1. 1 Posted by James Booth on 25 Sep, 2014 03:21 PM

   

   Hey,

   I've run into the exact same problem as Maik - any feedback on making builds-on-tag-pushes possible? A tag push is often the definitive way of saying 'a new release needs to be made', so it would be really handy if a build was automated.

   Cheers
   James

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2. 2 Posted by gep13 on 26 Sep, 2014 06:29 AM

   

   Hey,

   Seems like there is an open Issue on the GitHub Site for this enhancement, You can track it there:

   https://github.com/appveyor/ci/issues/6

   Hope that helps!

   Gary

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 02 Oct, 2014 06:47 PM

   

   It's done and documented here:
   http://www.appveyor.com/docs/branches#build-on-tags

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4. 4 Posted by Maik Riechert on 02 Oct, 2014 07:02 PM

   

   That's great! Thanks for the quick implementation :)

   I'm currently using something like:

   deploy_script:
     - "powershell ./appveyor/pypi_deploy.ps1"

   And this script contains roughly:

   $gitinfo = git log -n 1 --pretty=format:'%d'
   echo "git log: $gitinfo"
   if ($gitinfo -match "tag: v") {
     # [... one more preparation line ...]
     Invoke-Expression "$env:CMD_IN_ENV python setup.py bdist_wheel upload"
   }

   I thought about putting this completely in appveyor.xml but I'm not sure
   on how to do that with deploy_script. Is it possible?

   Cheers
   Maik

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5. Support Staff 5 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 02 Oct, 2014 07:06 PM

   

   To do a multi-line string in YAML with preserving new lines:

   deploy_script: |
                   line1
                   line2
                   ...
   

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6. 6 Posted by Maik Riechert on 02 Oct, 2014 07:10 PM

   

   What I meant was, can I use this part:

     on:
       branch: master
       appveyor_repo_tag: true

   in combination with deploy_script?

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7. Support Staff 7 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 02 Oct, 2014 11:45 PM

   

   This is applied to deployment providers only.

   However, in your script you can just check appveyor_repo_tag variable for True.

   if($env:appveyor_repo_tag -eq 'True') {
      # do this
   }
   

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8. 8 Posted by jack.brown on 08 Oct, 2014 06:48 PM

   

   Is there any chance we can have deployment on tag support for BitBucket?

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9. Support Staff 9 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 08 Oct, 2014 07:16 PM

   

   Will take a look.

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10. Support Staff 10 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 08 Oct, 2014 10:04 PM

    

    It seems currently BitBucket does not provide the information about tags in webhook payload. Look at this: http://requestb.in/ssagxnss?inspect

    The first snapshot is regular git push where the second one is tag push.

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11. Ilya Finkelshteyn closed this discussion on 25 Aug, 2018 01:49 AM.