Tweaked Travis settings and tried to enable Appveyor CI.

.travis.yml

@@ -1,18 +1,34 @@
 language: rust
+sudo: false
+rust:
+  # 1.8.0 is the earliest known version that Cargo does work for the current crates.io-index repo.
+  # probably older versions work, but we are forced to use this as the minimum for Cargo...
+  - 1.8.0
+  - stable
+  - beta
+  - nightly
 os:
   - linux
   - osx
+matrix:
+  allow_failures:
+    - rust: nightly
 env:
   global:
     - LD_LIBRARY_PATH: /usr/local/lib
-    - secure: i8Ijk6g4/26e3e7+r2OeGAPSP8G8O9P50JibW1omJ0j0ixXhyhPoY2bch3CGhnOu44dI5O31IIbjJJ+iEMp29xQBvkv9YpxAI+hIzOP+XAH6GCYxUDiBVcDoWrXTj+wU6/veuvjLCunu4eRHlskrgJbZXhUVODYzJuLgsN8Ou0w=
 script:
+  # interleave building and testing in hope that it saves time
   - cargo build -v
-  - cargo build -v --features rustc-serialize
-  - cargo build -v --features serde
   - cargo test -v
+  - cargo build -v --features rustc-serialize
   - cargo test -v --features rustc-serialize
+  - cargo build -v --features serde
   - cargo test -v --features serde
-  - cargo doc
+notifications:
-after_script:
+  email: false
-  - cd target && curl http://www.rust-ci.org/artifacts/put?t=$RUSTCI_TOKEN | sh
+  irc:
+    channels:
+      - "irc.mozilla.org#chronotope"
+    template:
+      - "%{repository_slug}/%{branch} (%{commit} - %{author}): %{message}"
+    skip_join: true

Makefile

@@ -21,12 +21,18 @@ README.md: src/lib.rs
 	awk '/^\/\/! # Chrono /{print "[Chrono][doc]",$$4}' $< | sed 's/./=/g' >> $@
 	echo >> $@
 	echo '[![Chrono on Travis CI][travis-image]][travis]' >> $@
+	echo '[![Chrono on Appveyor][appveyor-image]][appveyor]' >> $@
+	echo '[![Chrono on crates.io][cratesio-image]][cratesio]' >> $@
 	echo >> $@
-	echo '[travis-image]: https://travis-ci.org/lifthrasiir/rust-chrono.png' >> $@
+	echo '[travis-image]: https://travis-ci.org/lifthrasiir/rust-chrono.svg?branch=master' >> $@
-	echo '[travis]: https://travis-ci.org/lifthrasiir/rust-chrono' >> $@
+	echo '[travis]: https://travis-ci.org/lifthrasiir/rust-chrono/branch/master' >> $@
+	echo '[appveyor-image]: https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/o83jn08389si56fy/branch/master?svg=true' >> $@
+	echo '[appveyor]: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/lifthrasiir/rust-chrono/branch/master' >> $@
+	echo '[cratesio-image]: https://img.shields.io/crates/v/chrono.svg' >> $@
+	echo '[cratesio]: https://crates.io/crates/chrono' >> $@
 	awk '/^\/\/! # Chrono /,/^\/\/! ## /' $< | cut -b 5- | grep -v '^#' | \
 		sed 's/](\.\//](https:\/\/lifthrasiir.github.io\/rust-chrono\/chrono\//g' >> $@
-	echo '[Complete Documentation][doc]' >> $@
+	echo '***[Complete Documentation][doc]***' >> $@
 	echo >> $@
 	echo '[doc]: https://lifthrasiir.github.io/rust-chrono/' >> $@
 	echo >> $@

README.md

@@ -2,9 +2,15 @@
 ====================
 
 [![Chrono on Travis CI][travis-image]][travis]
+[![Chrono on Appveyor][appveyor-image]][appveyor]
+[![Chrono on crates.io][cratesio-image]][cratesio]
 
-[travis-image]: https://travis-ci.org/lifthrasiir/rust-chrono.png
+[travis-image]: https://travis-ci.org/lifthrasiir/rust-chrono.svg?branch=master
-[travis]: https://travis-ci.org/lifthrasiir/rust-chrono
+[travis]: https://travis-ci.org/lifthrasiir/rust-chrono/branch/master
+[appveyor-image]: https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/o83jn08389si56fy/branch/master?svg=true
+[appveyor]: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/lifthrasiir/rust-chrono/branch/master
+[cratesio-image]: https://img.shields.io/crates/v/chrono.svg
+[cratesio]: https://crates.io/crates/chrono
 
 Date and time handling for Rust. (also known as `rust-chrono`)
 It aims to be a feature-complete superset of
@@ -23,7 +29,7 @@ which Chrono builts upon and should acknowledge:
 * Dietrich Epp's [datetime-rs](https://github.com/depp/datetime-rs)
 * Luis de Bethencourt's [rust-datetime](https://github.com/luisbg/rust-datetime)
 
-[Complete Documentation][doc]
+***[Complete Documentation][doc]***
 
 [doc]: https://lifthrasiir.github.io/rust-chrono/
 

appveyor.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+environment:
+  matrix:
+    - TARGET: 1.8.0-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu
+    - TARGET: stable-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
+    - TARGET: stable-i686-pc-windows-msvc
+    - TARGET: stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu
+    - TARGET: stable-i686-pc-windows-gnu
+    - TARGET: nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
+    - TARGET: nightly-i686-pc-windows-msvc
+    - TARGET: nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu
+    - TARGET: nightly-i686-pc-windows-gnu
+matrix:
+  allow_failures:
+    - channel: nightly
+install:
+  - ps: Start-FileDownload "https://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-${env:TARGET}.exe" -FileName "rust-install.exe"
+  - ps: .\rust-install.exe /VERYSILENT /NORESTART /DIR="C:\rust" | Out-Null
+  - ps: $env:PATH="$env:PATH;C:\rust\bin"
+  - rustc -vV
+  - cargo -vV
+build_script:
+  # do not test all combinations, Travis will handle that
+  - cargo build -v --features 'serde rustc-serialize'
+test_script:
+  - cargo test -v --features 'serde rustc-serialize'