Installation of TeX live 2021 on Windows 10 fails with Perl error message in TLWinGoo.pm line 1340

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 02:43:35PM +0200, Christoph-Erdmann Pfeiler wrote:
> Gentle reader,
> 
> 
> just a hint from me:
> 
> 
> Commenting out lines 1340 up to 1344 of Perl module TLWinGoo.pm made the
> installation routine work.

Indeed. I had removed these tests since the installer won't even
start on earlier windows versions, but forgot to remove this
reference.

But since this file is part of the core infrastructure, there may be
some delay before the fix turns up in the repository.

> > Undefined subroutine &TeXLive::TLWinGoo::is_vista called at
> > C:/Users/chris/AppData/Local/Temp/nsv946F.tmp/install-tl-20210408/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLWinGoo.pm
> > line 1340, <STDIN> line 106.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg