Simple, you need a working version of go1.4 to compile go1.5. The bootstrapping ...

ominous_prime on May 27, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Go in Go

Simple, you need a working version of go1.4 to compile go1.5.

The bootstrapping process can therefore take advantage of the fact that go1.4 will continue to build as it does today, and use that to get a working go installation to build go1.5+.

klapinat0r on May 27, 2015 [–]

Ah, great. Thanks for the explanation :)