ci: remove redundant runs on different python versions, unify env init

Author: SYMSCAE

.github/actions/setup-tests/action.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+name: Set up C++ tests
+
+runs:
+  using: composite
+  steps:
+    - name: Fetch upstream release tags
+      shell: bash
+      run: git fetch --tags https://github.com/diffpy/libdiffpy.git
+
+    - name: Check out CxxTest 4.4
+      uses: actions/checkout@v6
+      with:
+        repository: CxxTest/cxxtest
+        ref: 191adddb3876ab389c0c856e1c03874bf70f8ee4
+        path: build/cxxtest
+
+    - name: Prepare C++ test configuration
+      shell: python {0}
+      run: |
+        import runpy
+        runpy.run_path('.github/scripts/configure-tests.py')
+
+    - name: Create build environment
+      uses: conda-incubator/setup-miniconda@v3
+      with:
+        activate-environment: test
+        channels: conda-forge
+        conda-remove-defaults: "true"
+        auto-update-conda: false
+        auto-activate-base: false
+        python-version: "3.14"
+        environment-file: build/test-environment.yml
+        channel-priority: strict

.github/scripts/configure-matrix.py .github/scripts/configure-tests.py.github/scripts/configure-matrix.py renamed to .github/scripts/configure-tests.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-"""Configure SCons and CxxTest for the CI matrix."""
+"""Configure SCons, CxxTest and the conda environment for CI tests."""
 
 import json
 from pathlib import Path
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
             requirements.append(spec)
 
 Path("build").mkdir(exist_ok=True)
-Path("build/matrix-environment.yml").write_text(
+Path("build/test-environment.yml").write_text(
     json.dumps(
         {
             "name": "test",

.github/workflows/matrix-and-codecov.yml

@@ -1,29 +1,29 @@
 name: Matrix and Codecov
 
 on:
-  # push:
-  #   branches:
-  #     - main
-  release:
-    types:
-      - prereleased
-      - published
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+
+  workflow_call:
+    secrets:
+      CODECOV_TOKEN:
+        required: false
   workflow_dispatch:
 
 concurrency:
   group: matrix-${{ github.ref }}
-  cancel-in-progress: ${{ github.event_name != 'release' }}
+  cancel-in-progress: ${{ !startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/') }}
 
 jobs:
   matrix-coverage:
-    name: C++ tests (${{ matrix.os }}, Python ${{ matrix.python-version }})
+    name: C++ tests (${{ matrix.os }})
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     timeout-minutes: 45
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         os: [ubuntu-latest, windows-latest, macos-latest, macos-15-intel]
-        python-version: ["3.12", "3.13", "3.14"]
         include:
           - os: ubuntu-latest
             shell: bash -l {0}
@@ -51,48 +51,21 @@ jobs:
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
 
-      - name: Fetch upstream release tags
-        run: git fetch --tags https://github.com/diffpy/libdiffpy.git
-
-      # CxxTest is header-only and its generator runs directly from source.
-      # The conda-forge package is not available on every matrix platform.
-      - name: Check out CxxTest 4.4
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-        with:
-          repository: CxxTest/cxxtest
-          ref: 191adddb3876ab389c0c856e1c03874bf70f8ee4
-          path: build/cxxtest
-
-      - name: Prepare C++ test configuration
-        shell: python {0}
-        run: |
-          import runpy
-          runpy.run_path('.github/scripts/configure-matrix.py')
-
-      - name: Create build environment
-        uses: conda-incubator/setup-miniconda@v3
-        with:
-          activate-environment: test
-          channels: conda-forge
-          conda-remove-defaults: "true"
-          auto-update-conda: false
-          auto-activate-base: false
-          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
-          environment-file: build/matrix-environment.yml
-          channel-priority: strict
+      - name: Set up C++ tests
+        uses: ./.github/actions/setup-tests
 
       - name: Build and run C++ tests
         run: scons -j${{ matrix.jobs }} build=${{ matrix.build }} test
 
       - name: Generate coverage report
-        if: runner.os == 'Linux' && matrix.python-version == '3.14'
+        if: runner.os == 'Linux'
         run: >-
           gcovr --gcov-executable "$CONDA_PREFIX/bin/gcov"
           --root . --filter 'build/coverage-.*/diffpy/'
           --xml coverage.xml
 
       - name: Save coverage report
-        if: runner.os == 'Linux' && matrix.python-version == '3.14'
+        if: runner.os == 'Linux'
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
         with:
           name: coverage-report
@@ -101,9 +74,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Upload coverage to Codecov
         # Fork push builds have no upstream Codecov token; keep their artifact.
-        if: >-
-          runner.os == 'Linux' && matrix.python-version == '3.14' &&
-          github.repository == 'diffpy/libdiffpy'
+        if: runner.os == 'Linux' && github.repository == 'diffpy/libdiffpy'
         uses: codecov/codecov-action@v5
         with:
           files: coverage.xml

.github/workflows/release-github-on-tag.yml

@@ -19,8 +19,13 @@ jobs:
     secrets:
       PAT_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.PAT_TOKEN }}
 
+  matrix:
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/matrix-and-codecov.yml
+    secrets:
+      CODECOV_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
+
   release-github:
-    needs: [check-tag-privilege, check-pat-token-validity]
+    needs: [check-tag-privilege, check-pat-token-validity, matrix]
     uses: scikit-package/release-scripts/.github/workflows/_release-github.yml@v0
     secrets:
       PAT_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.PAT_TOKEN }}

.github/workflows/tests-on-pr.yml

@@ -21,38 +21,8 @@ jobs:
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
 
-      - name: Initialize miniconda
-        uses: conda-incubator/setup-miniconda@v3
-        with:
-          activate-environment: test
-          channels: conda-forge
-          conda-remove-defaults: "true"
-          auto-update-conda: false
-          auto-activate-base: false
-
-      - name: Conda config
-        run: >-
-          conda config --set always_yes yes
-          --set changeps1 no
-
-      - name: Install requirements
-        run: >-
-          conda install
-          --file requirements/build.txt
-          --file requirements/conda.txt
-          --file requirements/tests.txt
-
-      - name: Configure SCons for the conda environment
-        run: |
-          cat > sconscript.local <<'EOF'
-          Import('env')
-          import os
-          prefix = os.environ['CONDA_PREFIX']
-          env.Replace(CXX=os.path.join(prefix, 'bin', 'c++'))
-          env.Prepend(CCFLAGS=['-isystem' + os.path.join(prefix, 'include')])
-          env.Append(LIBPATH=os.path.join(prefix, 'lib'))
-          env.Append(LINKFLAGS='-Wl,-rpath,' + os.path.join(prefix, 'lib'))
-          EOF
+      - name: Set up C++ tests
+        uses: ./.github/actions/setup-tests
 
       - name: Build and run C++ tests with coverage
         run: |