Potential Git and CI integration

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by virtuald

For an interpreted language such as python, it's super important to test your code before you upload it to the robot, as even simple syntax errors or referencing a variable that doesn't exist can put your robot dead in the water. That's why for years RobotPy has had first-class support for running your robot code without the robot -- which makes it super simple to integrate with a online CI system like Travis-CI.

It would be nice if off-robot testing were a first-class concept for the other robot languages, and I think that improving that situation would have a bigger impact on teams. After all, not everyone has an extra RoboRIO lying around to run a CI system on... and really, you shouldn't be running your robot on internet-connected networks!

I know 254 put together a FakeWPILib they were using last year, I'm currently working on getting that up and running locally. Hopefully after that it'll be simple enough to get it running under CI. I'll let you know if I make any progress. Obviously this still leaves C++ and LV teams.