Simplify appveyor to only use conda

ksunden · ksunden · commit 3d7ebd527cee · 2022-11-08T01:24:20.000-06:00
Closes #24394
diff --git a/.appveyor.yml b/.appveyor.yml
@@ -24,11 +24,9 @@ environment:
     - PYTHON_VERSION: "3.8"
       CONDA_INSTALL_LOCN: "C:\\Miniconda3-x64"
       TEST_ALL: "no"
-      EXTRAREQS: "-r requirements/testing/extra.txt"
     - PYTHON_VERSION: "3.9"
       CONDA_INSTALL_LOCN: "C:\\Miniconda3-x64"
       TEST_ALL: "no"
-      EXTRAREQS: "-r requirements/testing/extra.txt"
 
 # We always use a 64-bit machine, but can build x86 distributions
 # with the PYTHON_ARCH variable
@@ -52,19 +50,13 @@ install:
   - conda config --prepend channels conda-forge
 
   # For building, use a new environment
-  - conda create -q -n test-environment python=%PYTHON_VERSION% tk "pip<22.0"
-  - activate test-environment
+  - echo \ \ - python=%PYTHON_VERSION% >> environment.yml
+  - conda env create -f environment.yml
+  - activate mpl-dev
   # pull pywin32 from conda because on py38 there is something wrong with finding
   # the dlls when installed from pip
   - conda install -c conda-forge pywin32
-  # install pyqt from conda-forge
-  - conda install -c conda-forge pyqt
   - echo %PYTHON_VERSION% %TARGET_ARCH%
-  # Install dependencies from PyPI.
-  - python -m pip install --upgrade -r requirements/testing/all.txt %EXTRAREQS% %PINNEDVERS%
-  # Install optional dependencies from PyPI.
-  # Sphinx is needed to run sphinxext tests
-  - python -m pip install --upgrade sphinx
   # Show the installed packages + versions
   - conda list
 
@@ -104,7 +96,7 @@ artifacts:
     type: zip
 
 on_finish:
-  - pip install codecov
+  - conda install codecov
   - codecov -e PYTHON_VERSION PLATFORM
 
 on_failure:
