[binarycrusader]

I'm not sure why I was downvoted into oblivion; but that's actually great news.

I was under the impression from reading the boostrap document that this meant I would have to port 1.4 and 1.5. I think I completely misunderstood the new ports section as to how it related to the plan overall.

If I can get away with only porting a newer version, that's considerably easier.

Thanks for assuaging my fears.

[binarycrusader]

For others following along, I would like to point out that my original conclusion was that 1.4 would be required given the explicit statement in the document:

  To build Go 1.x, for x ≥ 5, it will be necessary to have
  Go 1.4 installed already, in $GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP.

This is subtly different from the statement in the new ports section of the document:

  For Go 1.x (x ≥ 5), new ports will have to be done by
  cross-compiling test binaries on a working system, 
  copying the binaries over to the target, and running and 
  debugging them there.