New feature for Go - add method to get the operating system version

• go

  2,068 119,564 10.0 Go

  The Go programming language

  

Just so you know, (and this is a fine place for initial feedback), the Go issue tracker is the place for proposals. These get seen by maintainers and triaged into stages and publicly reported on in weekly meeting minutes. (This is not necessarily a fast or perfect process, but is the official process).

• rsrc

  3 1,180 0.0 Go

  Tool for embedding .ico & manifest resources in Go programs for Windows.

One problem is, on Windows, this is impossible without bundling your application with a compiled manifest (I use github.com/akavel/rsrc. It's a horrible state of affairs brought about by backwards compatibility, but without it when you ask for a version, you'll get Windows 8 no matter what.

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• go-sysinfo

  1 306 7.4 Go

  go-sysinfo is a library for collecting system information.

  

You could definitely develop a library that does what you suggest (and some options already exist) however I doubt that it's something that will be added to the standard library (the barrier is very high for good reason!).

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