Windows installer

[Ross Paterson]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 05:56:45PM +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote:
> I propose that either:
> 
> 1) The tools used to make the current installer .msi files make
> themselves known to the world, along with appropriate documentation
> and scripts.
> 
> 2) I (or someone else) writes an MSI file generator, probably using
> the free Wix toolset.
> 
> 3) I (or someone else) writes an NSIS installer, which is an .exe
> installer based on the NSIS toolkit, Google seems to now use this as
> their preferred installer setup, so it can't be too bad.
> 
> 4) I (or someone else) writes an installer from the ground up. Its not
> that much work, as I already have about 98% of the code from writing
> an installer from the Pingus project. The installer is a simple cat
> installer.exe data.zip > winhugs.exe installer, so it allows making an
> easy distribution from a zip file, even under Linux.

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.