Windows installer

Neil Mitchell ndmitchell at gmail.com
Tue Sep 20 19:34:38 EDT 2005


> 
> I had a play with NSIS a while ago.  It seems to be short on tutorial
> material, but the basics are fairly simple, except that I couldn't get
> it to work (failed while installing).  NSIS seems do do more than a
> cat would.

Nope, the cat is infinitely powerful, because you have full control
over the initial installer.exe that is run. If anything the cat method
plus a custom installer probably has far more power and options than
NSIS ever could have.

The installer I did for Pingus creates icons in the start menu, but
adding a few registry keys is very easy. I would hope to completely
destroy the src/winhugs/register directory and move that logic into
the installer, which is where it belongs.

Thanks

Neil


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