[ARROW-4281] [CI] Use Ubuntu Xenial (16.04) VMs on Travis-CI

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Component/s: Continuous Integration
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/20856
• Assignee: Antoine Pitrou
• Reporter: Antoine Pitrou
• Created: 17/Jan/19 12:57
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:32
• Resolved: 23/Jan/19 09:22

Description

We're currently using the Trusty VMs on Travis-CI. Besides the fact that Ubuntu Trusty is soon 5 years old, it forces us to use the old pre-C++ ABI migration conda-forge packages. We should migrate all or most jobs to Xenial.

Issue Links

• blocks: ARROW-4277 [C++] Add gmock to toolchain
• duplicates: ARROW-3255 [C++/Python] Migrate Travis CI jobs off Xcode 6.4
• is depended upon by: ARROW-4232 [C++] Follow conda-forge compiler ABI migration
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3418