Don't use sudo

[luismbo]

If we manage to avoid using sudo to do our setup, then we've taken the first step towards being able to use Travis CI's caching mechanism.

[eudoxia0]

What would be required to make this happen?

Travis is urging folks to move to the new container-based setup, and that requires disabling sudo: required.

[luismbo]

We need to avoid installing things into system directories. That might involve removing the dependency on apt-get install since travis's answer to that - http://docs.travis-ci.com/user/apt/ - is not really suitable for cl-travis.

[mmaul]

Is there any movement on eliminating the use of sudo in install.sh? Apparently Travis-CI disabled the use of sudo for security reasons (at least temporarily)

[luismbo]

@mmaul thanks for the heads up. Yeah, we need to fix this. I'll see what I can do in the next few days. Meanwhile, patches welcome!

[luismbo]

I didn't have time to tackle this, but it seems that sudo is back, so the issue has been rendered somewhat moot, since folks are working on better alternatives to cl-travis.

[berquist]

folks are working on better alternatives to cl-travis

What are the alternatives?