I'll flag it as a maybe since we might still need to tweak something in that xml file yet anyway. But not critical if we don't do it right away. I think that message only comes up if your Windows is too old anyway.

I suggest we change:

 <Condition Message="Windows 2000 or greater required."> VersionNT >= 500</Condition>  

with

 <Condition Message="Windows XP or greater required."> VersionNT >= 500</Condition>  

If someone use this on Windows 2000, good luck to them.

Alex

@alexbrainman, why not also bump the 500 to 501, per https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa370556(v=vs.85).aspx ?

Specifically, Go requires Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2), IIRC.

If a user really wants to try it on an earlier Windows, they can use the ZIP file instead of the MSI.

why not also bump the 500 to 501, per https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa370556(v=vs.85).aspx ?

I am just trying to change as little as possible. So we don't break some users. I know nothing about MSIs.

If a user really wants to try it on an earlier Windows, they can use the ZIP file instead of the MSI.

Sure. They can use MSI or ZIP file.

Alex

I am just trying to change as little as possible.

For Go 1.7 that sounds fine, just changing the text. I'll keep this bug open for more later.

CL https://golang.org/cl/25364 mentions this issue.

FYI, CL 25364 only changed the text, but not the NT version.

It now reads:

<Condition Message="Windows XP or greater required."> VersionNT >= 500</Condition>

but it should probably read:

<Condition Message="Windows XP or greater required."> VersionNT >= 501</Condition>

@mkrautz, yup. See #16544 (comment) above. We're being conservative for 1.7.

Ah, sorry. I came here from the CL, and I didn't read the issue thread. Oops. :-)

CL https://golang.org/cl/33354 mentions this issue.