Merge pull request #9956 from ajamian/master

TST: adding sdist and install tests to the 2.6 regression - closes #9878

Author: jreback

.travis.yml

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ matrix:
       - LOCALE_OVERRIDE="it_IT.UTF-8"
       - BUILD_TYPE=conda
       - JOB_NAME: "26_nslow_nnet"
+      - INSTALL_TEST=true
     - python: 2.7
       env:
       - NOSE_ARGS="slow and not network and not disabled"
@@ -183,6 +184,7 @@ script:
 # nothing here, or failed tests won't fail travis
 
 after_script:
+  - ci/install_test.sh
   - if [ -f /tmp/doc.log ]; then cat /tmp/doc.log; fi
   - source activate pandas && ci/print_versions.py
   - ci/print_skipped.py /tmp/nosetests.xml

ci/install_test.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+echo "inside $0"
+
+if [ "$INSTALL_TEST" ]; then
+    source activate pandas
+    echo "Starting installation test."
+    conda uninstall cython || exit 1
+    python "$TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR"/setup.py sdist --formats=zip,gztar || exit 1
+    pip install "$TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR"/dist/*tar.gz || exit 1
+    nosetests --exe -A "$NOSE_ARGS" pandas/tests/test_series.py --with-xunit --xunit-file=/tmp/nosetests_install.xml
+else
+    echo "Skipping installation test."
+fi
+RET="$?"
+
+exit "$RET"