[tex-live] Unable to use install-tl-windows.exe: "Windows XP earliest supported version; aborting..."

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 04:27:35PM -0500, Jon Hood wrote:
> Can you point me to the code that does the detection and I can try to debug
> it on my end?
> 
> Thanks!

The nsis script:
http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/tlpkg/libexec/install-tl.nsi?revision=33535&view=markup

Nsis is available as Debian/Ubuntu package. The version on my system
is 2.50-1, but what matters is the nsis version on the TUG site
which compiles the nsis installer as part of the nightly updates, and which may be a bit older. A Windows version can be
downloaded from http://nsis.sourceforge.net/ The header file in question
is WinVer.nsh.

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Siep Kroonenberg