Re: Travis CI build improvements

On 2017-04-17 at 11:15:57 -0500, Zakariyya Mughal wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I noticed the Travis CI configuration could use some work. I suggest
> taking a look at <https://github.com/travis-perl/helpers> since it can
> automatically install all the dependencies and send the coverage to
> Coveralls.

The first part of this has been done at <https://github.com/bioperl/bioperl-live/pull/223>.

There are more details there such as splitting running the coverage
across different jobs in a build.

Regards,
- Zakariyya Mughal

> We could additionally look at automatically building on Windows (using
> Appveyor) and macOS (using Travis CI) as well.
> 
> Regards,
> - Zakariyya Mughal