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Windows port details? I start at golang.org, link to http://golang.org/doc/install.html. Says "A port to Microsoft Windows is in progress but incomplete." That in turn links to the world's least helpful wiki page: Page "WindowsPort" Not Found.

Where do I find out more about the Windows port?

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Go 1 is about to be released. See the install docs for Go 1 at http://weekly.golang.org/doc/install - these include windows instructions.

Thanks. If I was somehow supposed to know about the weekly site, I failed.

Nope, there's no way you could have known.

We've been working on Go 1 for about six months now, but have resisted pushing people toward the weekly (unstable) snapshots until the most recent one, as the documentation story was incomplete and we didn't want to leave newbies out in the cold. We're nearly ready on all fronts now, and hope to pull the pin on Go 1 before the end of the month.

As a coder who use mainly weekly (and now use godoc locally each time I need the package documentation), I still find it strange not to have links between release, weekly and tip on top of the documentation pages. Coders have to keep in mind the three links. I see a lot of questions on sites like stackoverflow that would probably not have been asked if the different documentations (and their existence) had been more visible.

And I suppose this small problem won't stop with Go1 as I hope we'll see new progress in weekly as we're used to.

You won't see progress with weekly as you're use to that's the point of Go 1. We are hoping to spend some time actually using Go, rather than building it.

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