TortoiseSVN 1.8 for Windows XP?

[Nathan Hartman]

Hi all,

First, thanks for this great tool!

As the subject line says, I am looking for TortoiseSVN 1.8 for Windows XP. According to the page here: https://tortoisesvn.net/tsvn_1.10_releasenotes.html 1.8 should work. However the MSI, located here -- https://osdn.net/projects/tortoisesvn/storage/1.8.12/Application/ --  which shows a date of 2018-03-10 04:31 won't install. It complains it needs a newer Windows service pack or something. The date leads me to think this build may be too new and might require Windows 7 and higher? 

Thanks!

[Stefan]

"it needs a newer Windows service pack or something"  - what's the exact error message?

And just to make sure: if you're still using XP, at least make sure that you have all service packs and windows updates installed.

And try downloading from here for the ancient versions:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/tortoisesvn/files/1.8.12/

[Nathan Hartman]

Solved. Thank you for your help.

It turns out the SourceForge and OSDN downloads were identical. OSDN showed the timestamp as 2018. I thought it was a new build of the old version. :-)

For anyone searching this in the future, the exact error message was "This installation package cannot be installed by the Windows Installer Service. You must install a Windows Service Pack that contains a new version of the Windows Installer service."

Installing Windows Installer 4.5 Redistributable fixed it. The system is XP SP3. I only keep this XP machine for some old irreplaceable (for now) programs that don't play nice with newer Windows. It never connects to a network!!