How to install SourceTree on Windows XP?
Hi Mike,
Currently, as stated on the download link of Atlassian's Source Tree for Windows, the Windows release is only compatible with Windows 7+.
Cheers,
Pietro T. Schaff
So I guess, you simply treat older Windows versions as unimportant?
Support for Windows XP is officially ending by Microsoft themselves as noted here. Furthermore, Windows 7/8 usage is going up significantly and outweighs that of XP in most cases. We'd love to be able to support everyone but in doing so would require significant sacrifices in what we can deliver due to OS constraints as well as the consumption of time in doing so.
I guess, it is rather a technical constraint, because you decided to take a .Net framework version as base which is not compatible to Windows XP.
Can you please make the installer refuse to install on XP? It cannot be uninstalled.
Thanks.
As a workaround we use xp in virtual machine and share a folder from host computer (Windows 7) to quest computer. That way we can maintain old products in XP environment and still use SourceTree for Git.
thats not working for us as we need we also need dongles and other (firewire-)hardware, and thats not usable/accessible inside a virtual machine.
when will Windows help/guide will be available?
Just chiming in with my 2 cents: I found this to be a greatly dissapointing decision by Atlassian that Source Tree not support Windows XP. I mean Source Tree on Windows 7 is already incredibly slow and behaves fairly goofy at times, but to not be able to use it on my Windows XP test VMs, that was the last straw for me. I just moved on to a different product in spite of most of my use cases being on Windows 7. It wasn't worth the hassle of dealing with. When you're not the only game in town, you really can't affort to annoy customers. There are other better options. Like it or not 1) XP isn't dead yet and 2) XP will not be completely dead for many more years yet. There will always be slow-to-change customers with some ancient box in a corner. And always be XP downgrades, or run in a VM or some form of compatibility mode. Some businesses want to keep their customers, so are forced to continue to suppor them. Atlassian is just clearly not one of those businesses. In that they provide products to software engineers, the very people who will need ancient support for many years to come, this is a disappointing business model to see chosen. But I'm sure even _if_ Atlassian realized their grave mistake and wanted to change now, it's just simply too late. Their path is set. Sorry you had to lose me as a customer.
...and not to forget the embedded devices based on XP.Microsoft officially supports Windows Embedded Standard 2009 at least till 2024!Especially projects developing in this segment might need to use XP (like we do).
That's a good point. Because its software is so rarely updated, I'd almost forgotten that one of our products is a kiosk type system running on XP embedded. (Though I still think we should have used Linux on that one.) XP is far from dead. Software engineers will be supporting XP for many years to come. But not Atlassian. I guess they just don't want our business.
Hey Arah,
It wasn't a quick decision to decide not to support Windows XP, a lot of thought went behind it. Ultimately it came down to market share, and Windows XP has dropped so quickly for the amount of work needed to support it would outweigh the benefits.
Just to put it into perspective, in October of 2013 the market share was 33% Windows XP (it dropped by 3% in 2013 alone). Out of that 33% let's give a very optimistic guess that 10% of those were developers leaving us with 3.3%. Now out of those let's take how many of them would be using SourceTree. The numbers are extremely low, basically.
Whilst Microsoft are providing support for it, it's largely in part because so many people have ditched it that there's barely any support left on Microsoft's part due to how quickly it's fading out.
We would honestly love to support everyone, but to do so for the outcome to be over the next year or two no-one using it made no sense.
Hope that helps
We recently converted from StarTeam to Git with some disruption. We need a good GUI like SourceTree. My main development machine runs WinXP because -- why upgrade if it works fine to compile and test Java code? Constant upgrading drains funds and slows operations. I could upgrade to Win 7+, but probably makes no sense on this older hardware which supports development fine even if it isn't the latest greatest gaming machine. So I'd have to upgrade whole machine, lots of migration, cleanup, etc. in middle of work cycle, which is very risky if deadlines loom.
So I'd just like a tool that runs on Win XP for now. Hard to recommend SourceTree for the team while we still have XP machines on line. We'll see though, if it really is head-and-shoulders above the rest, might be worth it.
It is your choice to decide that you won't support XP. I accept this. What I don't accept is that it is now installed on my XP machine. Please point me to the instructions how to uninstall it. It does not show up in Add/Remove Programs.
Just use SmartGit
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