Add testing under Windows

[felixdivo]

Currently our code is automatically tested under Linux and many different Python versions, and under OSX under only two Python 3 versions using Travis CI. (see python-can/.travis.yml)

But no automatic testing under Windows is performed. Should we integrate it into the testing of python-can? Unfortunately Travis CI can't do that, but maybe someone else knows a similar service for Windows.

[christiansandberg]

Unfortunately the unit tests we run have very little coverage of the whole project, so testing it on Windows as well won't help much.

What we really need is a physical setup with all the interfaces we support so that we could test them all against each other. Maybe we could ask the different vendors to give us free samples... :)

[felixdivo]

Hm yes, maybe you are right. But then we would still need someone running a CI server, something like buildbot maybe. It could also report coverage stats.

[hardbyte]

Let's keep this issue just to basic testing support on windows :-) I've created issue #261 for the test rig.

https://www.appveyor.com/ is the closest I've heard of to travis but for windows

[felixdivo]

Yeah, that looks nice. I've seen it being used in some other Python projects as well. Could you set it up?

[hardbyte]

Happy to make the project now - do you wan to take on creating a branch with a .appveyer.yml config?

https://ci.appveyor.com/project/hardbyte/python-can

[felixdivo]

Yeah, I can have a look at it.