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Source: anyoptimization/pymoo.github/workflows/nightly.ymlLicense Apache-2.0View source

What it does

This is the Nightly workflow from the anyoptimization/pymoo repository, a real project running GitHub Actions. It is shown here with attribution under its Apache-2.0 license.

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The workflow

workflow (.yml)
name: Nightly

# The expensive gate (full OS × Python matrix, examples, full docs build),
# run once a day - but ONLY if something was committed in the last 24h, so a
# quiet day costs nothing. Manual dispatch always runs. (IMPROVEMENTS.md P-1.)
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 4 * * *'   # 04:00 UTC daily
  workflow_dispatch:

concurrency:
  group: nightly
  cancel-in-progress: false

jobs:
  changed:
    name: any commit in the last 24h?
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    outputs:
      run: ${{ steps.check.outputs.run }}
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - id: check
        run: |
          latest=$(git log -1 --format=%ct)
          now=$(date +%s)
          age=$(( now - latest ))
          if [ "${{ github.event_name }}" = "workflow_dispatch" ] || [ "$age" -lt 86400 ]; then
            echo "Last commit ${age}s ago → running nightly."
            echo "run=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
          else
            echo "Last commit ${age}s ago (>24h) → skipping nightly."
            echo "run=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
          fi

  unit-matrix:
    name: unit ${{ matrix.os }} · py${{ matrix.python }}
    needs: changed
    if: needs.changed.outputs.run == 'true'
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
        os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-latest]
        python: ['3.10', '3.11', '3.12', '3.13', '3.14']
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
        with:
          python-version: ${{ matrix.python }}
          cache: pip
      - name: Install pymoo (compiled) + deps
        run: |
          pip install --upgrade pip "setuptools>=77" "Cython>=0.29" "numpy>=2.0.0"
          pip install -e .
          python setup.py build_ext --inplace
          pip install -r tests/requirements.txt
          pip install "pyclawd>=0.1.1" pytest-xdist
      - name: Compiled extensions present
        # fail if the Cython extensions didn't compile (P-5b) - no silent slow fallback.
        run: python -c "import sys; from pymoo.functions import is_compiled; ok=is_compiled(); print('compiled:', ok); sys.exit(0 if ok else 1)"
      - name: Full unit suite (incl. long convergence tests)
        run: pytest -n auto -m "not examples and not docs and not golden"
      - name: Golden behavior-regression
        # res.F baselines are bit-reproducible only on the platform they were
        # recorded on (linux-x86_64); population EAs amplify platform libm
        # differences into a different front. Run the golden tier on Linux only;
        # the test module itself skips on other platforms (tests/test_golden.py).
        if: runner.os == 'Linux'
        run: pytest -m golden

  docs-examples:
    name: docs + examples (ubuntu)
    needs: changed
    if: needs.changed.outputs.run == 'true'
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
        with:
          python-version: '3.12'
          cache: pip
      - uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v7
      - name: System deps
        run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y pandoc xvfb
      - name: Install pymoo (compiled) + deps
        run: |
          pip install --upgrade pip "setuptools>=77" "Cython>=0.29" "numpy>=2.0.0"
          pip install -e .
          python setup.py build_ext --inplace
          pip install -r tests/requirements.txt
          pip install "pyclawd>=0.1.1" pytest-xdist pytest-xvfb
      - name: Examples (headless via xvfb)
        run: pytest -n auto -m examples
      - name: Restore docs execution cache
        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
          path: docs/.jupyter_cache
          key: jupyter-cache-${{ hashFiles('docs/source/**/*.md', 'pymoo/**/*.py') }}
          restore-keys: jupyter-cache-
      - name: Full docs build (guardrailed; all notebooks execute + HTML renders)
        # `pyclawd docs build` runs the output guardrail - fails if an executed
        # page rendered blank (the empty-docs failure mode).
        run: pyclawd docs build

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name: Nightly
 
# The expensive gate (full OS × Python matrix, examples, full docs build),
# run once a day - but ONLY if something was committed in the last 24h, so a
# quiet day costs nothing. Manual dispatch always runs. (IMPROVEMENTS.md P-1.)
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 4 * * *'   # 04:00 UTC daily
  workflow_dispatch:
 
concurrency:
  group: nightly
  cancel-in-progress: false
 
jobs:
  changed:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    name: any commit in the last 24h?
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    outputs:
      run: ${{ steps.check.outputs.run }}
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - id: check
        run: |
          latest=$(git log -1 --format=%ct)
          now=$(date +%s)
          age=$(( now - latest ))
          if [ "${{ github.event_name }}" = "workflow_dispatch" ] || [ "$age" -lt 86400 ]; then
            echo "Last commit ${age}s ago → running nightly."
            echo "run=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
          else
            echo "Last commit ${age}s ago (>24h) → skipping nightly."
            echo "run=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
          fi
 
  unit-matrix:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    name: unit ${{ matrix.os }} · py${{ matrix.python }}
    needs: changed
    if: needs.changed.outputs.run == 'true'
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
        os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-latest]
        python: ['3.10', '3.11', '3.12', '3.13', '3.14']
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
        with:
          python-version: ${{ matrix.python }}
          cache: pip
      - name: Install pymoo (compiled) + deps
        run: |
          pip install --upgrade pip "setuptools>=77" "Cython>=0.29" "numpy>=2.0.0"
          pip install -e .
          python setup.py build_ext --inplace
          pip install -r tests/requirements.txt
          pip install "pyclawd>=0.1.1" pytest-xdist
      - name: Compiled extensions present
        # fail if the Cython extensions didn't compile (P-5b) - no silent slow fallback.
        run: python -c "import sys; from pymoo.functions import is_compiled; ok=is_compiled(); print('compiled:', ok); sys.exit(0 if ok else 1)"
      - name: Full unit suite (incl. long convergence tests)
        run: pytest -n auto -m "not examples and not docs and not golden"
      - name: Golden behavior-regression
        # res.F baselines are bit-reproducible only on the platform they were
        # recorded on (linux-x86_64); population EAs amplify platform libm
        # differences into a different front. Run the golden tier on Linux only;
        # the test module itself skips on other platforms (tests/test_golden.py).
        if: runner.os == 'Linux'
        run: pytest -m golden
 
  docs-examples:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    name: docs + examples (ubuntu)
    needs: changed
    if: needs.changed.outputs.run == 'true'
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
        with:
          python-version: '3.12'
          cache: pip
      - uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v7
      - name: System deps
        run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y pandoc xvfb
      - name: Install pymoo (compiled) + deps
        run: |
          pip install --upgrade pip "setuptools>=77" "Cython>=0.29" "numpy>=2.0.0"
          pip install -e .
          python setup.py build_ext --inplace
          pip install -r tests/requirements.txt
          pip install "pyclawd>=0.1.1" pytest-xdist pytest-xvfb
      - name: Examples (headless via xvfb)
        run: pytest -n auto -m examples
      - name: Restore docs execution cache
        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
          path: docs/.jupyter_cache
          key: jupyter-cache-${{ hashFiles('docs/source/**/*.md', 'pymoo/**/*.py') }}
          restore-keys: jupyter-cache-
      - name: Full docs build (guardrailed; all notebooks execute + HTML renders)
        # `pyclawd docs build` runs the output guardrail - fails if an executed
        # page rendered blank (the empty-docs failure mode).
        run: pyclawd docs build
 

What changed

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Actions used in this workflow