On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 07:32:42AM +0200, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote: -> > Addressing only the issues of PCBuild8 and 64-bit architectures, I -> > have tried to establish "free" buildbot support for the 64-bit -> > architectures without any real success. -> > -> > Should the PSF be considering paying for infrastructure that will -> > support 64-bit build reporting? -> -> You can bring it up to the board, of course. However, given that -> all other buildbot machines were contributed by volunteers, the -> fact that nobody volunteers to contribute buildbot machines for -> PCbuild8 indicates that there is not a lot of interest in that -> build infrastructure. -> -> Note that there *are* 64-bit buildbot slaves, e.g. for AMD64 -> (contributed by Neal Norwitz), Alpha (contributed by Neal -> Norwitz), Itanium (contributed by Matthias Klose, offering -> a machine from the Debian project), and PPC64 (likewise). -> -> These machines all run Linux or Tru64, and (to my understanding) -> serve other purposes as well, making the buildbot slave -> just a minor detail. -> -> It's an unfortunate fact of life that Microsoft Windows does not -> support multi-tasking multi-user workloads that well, so the -> Windows buildbot slave are (to my knowledge) typically dedicated -> machines (except for Tim's machine, which is just disconnected -> from the master when he doesn't feel like running buildbot -> jobs). I haven't really been listening to this conversation, so forgive me if this isn't relevant, but: I'd be happy to install Windows and the latest VisualStudio on a 64-bit VMware image. I just can't be responsible for day-to-day administration of the buildslave; Windows requires too much attention for me to do that. cheers, --titus