attempt replacing Travis CI

.github/workflows/python-app.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+# This workflow will install Python dependencies, run tests and lint with a single version of Python
+# For more information see: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/automating-builds-and-tests/building-and-testing-python
+
+name: Python application
+
+on: pull_request
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  validate_unix:
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        python-version: ["3.8", "3.9"]
+    steps:
+    - name: checkout
+      uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+    - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v3
+      with:
+        python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      run: |
+        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+        python -m pip install -e .
+        python -m pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
+
+    - name: check pylint 
+      run: pylint JSONLibrary --disable=R,C,W0703,W0212,W1203
+
+    - name: check doc generation
+      run: python -m robot.libdoc JSONLibrary docs/JSONLibrary.html
+
+    - name: check black
+      run: black . --check --diff
+
+    - name: Lint with flake8
+      run: |
+        # stop the build if there are Python syntax errors or undefined names
+        flake8 . --count --select=E9,F63,F7,F82 --show-source --statistics
+        # exit-zero treats all errors as warnings. The GitHub editor is 127 chars wide
+        flake8 . --count --exit-zero --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=127 --statistics
+
+    - name: validate
+      run: |
+        pytest --cov-config=tests/.coveragerc --cov --cov-report term tests/
+        coverage xml --rcfile tests/.coveragerc
+        coverage html --rcfile tests/.coveragerc
+        robot -d tests/__out__/robot acceptance/
+
+  validate_windows:
+
+    runs-on: windows-latest
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        python-version: ["3.10", "3.11"]
+    steps:
+    - name: checkout
+      uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+    - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v3
+      with:
+        python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      run: |
+        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+        python -m pip install -e .
+        python -m pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
+
+    - name: validate
+      run: |
+        pytest --cov-config=tests/.coveragerc --cov --cov-report term tests/
+        coverage xml --rcfile tests/.coveragerc
+        coverage html --rcfile tests/.coveragerc
+        robot -d tests/__out__/robot acceptance/

requirements-dev.txt

@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@ black
 tox
 pytest
 pytest-cov
+flake8