Hi everyone, I'm going to build a set of Windows installations to run buildbot on. But finding the right set of versions to do this is a challenge. There are so many versions of Windows that it's impossible to get even close to the full set of them. So I'd like to have a good set of systems that pretty much cover most options. The buildbot system will work in three parts. One will build a set of installable packages - for now probably just a zip file. Another will install these packages and test them on clean systems. A third will do compilation tests on OS/Compiler combinations. Windows 2000 or earlier is not going to be done. I'm not sure about Windows Server 2003. I'd like to skip XP, as MS cut support for it, but I think there are too many live installations to do this yet. For building the installable packages, I intend to use XP and Visual Studio 2008. My list of systems to test the packages and do the compile + make test on would be: XP Pro 32 bit Vista 32 bit Windows 7 64 bit Server 2008 64 bit On XP, I'd install VC++ 2005, on the others VC++ 2008. When Visual Studio 2010 is out, I'll install that on Vista and one of the 64 bit systems. This is four systems that does a very thin span of the incredible amount of systems done by MS. (And people say there are a lot of Linux distributions.) Does this make sense to you? Please let me know what you think. Kind regards, Bo Thorsen, Monty Program AB.