stefanmaric/g

Can't install versions bellow 1.4.3 on macOS

torifaye opened this issue · 4 comments

torifaye commented

Whenever I try installing any version of Go lower than 1.5, I get the following error:

tar: Unrecognized archive format
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

I believe this is because the script tries downloading from https://dl.google.com/go/go1.4.darwin-amd64.tar.gz, but if you go to https://golang.org/dl/ , there are no such links that follow the format that the script expects. It seems as if they only started following that format with 1.5 and later.

stefanmaric commented

Hi @RobertYost , thanks from bringing this up!

there are no such links that follow the format that the script expects. It seems as if they only started following that format with 1.5 and later.

Interesting, I didn't notice.

I will take and look at see if the 10.8 builds actually work on newer macos versions.

This would require to put some handlers to check whenever the running macos is bellow or above 10.8.

I'm open to PRs, otherwise I will probably have a fix by end of week.

stefanmaric commented

Hey @RobertYost,

I was looking into this but cannot actually test properly since I would require a Mac with macos 10.11 or lower.

On what version of macos are you trying to install go 1.4?

For reference, here a compat table: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Darwin

torifaye commented

Hey @RobertYost,

I was looking into this but cannot actually test properly since I would require a Mac with macos 10.11 or lower.

On what version of macos are you trying to install go 1.4?

For reference, here a compat table: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Darwin

@stefanmaric Ah that would make sense why I couldn't get go <=1.4 to work on my machine by installing manually, I am using a macbook w/ kernel version 17.7.0, so High Sierra. I tried searching for a compat table but couldn't find one, thanks for that.

stefanmaric commented

I couldn't get go <=1.4 to work on my machine by installing manually, I am using a macbook w/ kernel version 17.7.0, so High Sierra.

In that case I will skip this feature for now, until more people demand it, since it would only benefit a very small, ever-shrinking niche.

I tried searching for a compat table but couldn't find one, thanks for that.

You're welcome! ❤️

Closing this but feel free to re-open and/or continue the discussion.