Merge pull request #1428 from henryiii/henryiii/ci/appveyor

ci: fix appveyor (Python 3.8+ needed for macOS)

Author: joerick

CI.md

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 This is a summary of the Python versions and platforms covered by the different CI platforms:
 
-|         | 3.7                   | 3.8                      | 3.9      | 3.10      | 3.11           |
-|---------|-----------------------|--------------------------|----------|-----------|----------------|
-| Linux   | AppVeyor¹ / Travis CI | Azure Pipelines / GitLab | CircleCI | Cirrus CI | GitHub Actions |
-| macOS   | AppVeyor¹ / Travis CI | Azure Pipelines          | CircleCI | Cirrus CI | GitHub Actions |
-| Windows | AppVeyor¹ / Travis CI | Azure Pipelines          |          | Cirrus CI | GitHub Actions |
+|         | 3.7       | 3.8                                   | 3.9       | 3.10      | 3.11           |
+|---------|-----------|---------------------------------------|-----------|-----------|----------------|
+| Linux   | Travis CI | AppVeyor¹ / Azure Pipelines / GitLab¹ | CircleCI¹ | Cirrus CI | GitHub Actions |
+| macOS   | Travis CI | AppVeyor¹ / Azure Pipelines           | CircleCI¹ | Cirrus CI | GitHub Actions |
+| Windows | Travis CI | AppVeyor¹ / Azure Pipelines / GitLab¹ |           | Cirrus CI | GitHub Actions |
 
-> ¹ AppVeyor only runs the "basic" test to reduce load.
+> ¹ Runs a reduced set of tests to reduce CI load
 
 Non-x86 architectures are covered on Travis CI using Python 3.7.

appveyor.yml

@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
 environment:
   matrix:
     - APPVEYOR_BUILD_WORKER_IMAGE: Ubuntu
-      APPVEYOR_JOB_NAME: "python37-x64-ubuntu"
+      APPVEYOR_JOB_NAME: "python38-x64-ubuntu"
     - APPVEYOR_BUILD_WORKER_IMAGE: Visual Studio 2015
-      APPVEYOR_JOB_NAME: "python37-x64-vs2015"
+      APPVEYOR_JOB_NAME: "python38-x64-vs2015"
     - APPVEYOR_BUILD_WORKER_IMAGE: macos
-      APPVEYOR_JOB_NAME: "python37-x64-macos"
+      APPVEYOR_JOB_NAME: "python38-x64-macos"
 
-stack: python 3.7
+stack: python 3.8
 
 build: off
 
 init:
-- cmd: set PATH=C:\Python37;C:\Python37\Scripts;%PATH%
+- cmd: set PATH=C:\Python38;C:\Python38\Scripts;%PATH%
 - ps: |
       $BRANCH = if ($env:APPVEYOR_PULL_REQUEST_HEAD_REPO_BRANCH) { $env:APPVEYOR_PULL_REQUEST_HEAD_REPO_BRANCH } else { $env:APPVEYOR_REPO_BRANCH }
       if (-not ($BRANCH -eq 'main' -or $BRANCH.ToLower().StartsWith('appveyor-'))) {