howl.ci

Caching ComputerCraft versions

Every time howl.ci runs you have to wait for the ComputerCraft file to be downloaded. Instead, we can utilise Travis's caching capabilities to save the ComputerCraft file.

In order to cache, we'll have to download to a directory instead. We'll choose to use $HOME/.cc-jars but we'll have to create that first. Then we simply set Travis to download that.

install:
  - mkdir -p $HOME/.cc-jars
  - wget -O howlci.jar https://dl.bintray.com/squiddev/maven/org/squiddev/howl.ci//howl.ci-.jar
cache:
  directories:
  - $HOME/.cc-jars

Then we just need to instruct the howl.ci runner to download into that directory instead. This is a trivial addition to our .howl.ci.properties file.

computercraft.file=${HOME}/.cc-jars/ComputerCraft1.79.jar

The first time you run using caching it'll still download the files, but after that you'll never have to wait again!