[Python-Dev] Planning a Windows buildbot

[Antoine Pitrou]

Martin v. Löwis <martin <at> v.loewis.de> writes:
> 
> As for the operating system: I don't think it matters at all. Windows XP
> Home is as fine a platform for this application as Windows 2008 R2
> Enterprise. What would matter is processor architecture - we don't have
> an Itanium Windows buildbot slave 

Microsoft has said it would stop doing Windows releases for Itanium:
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/04/microsoft-its-the-end-of-the-line-for-itanium-support.ars

I'm not sure there's any point in caring about it anymore.

Regards

Antoine.