Petazetas
17th December 2002 12:52 UTC

Script Engine
I'm impressed nsis is very nice ...but ...scripting is not as powerful and easy as it could be , why not use some script engine already available like www.scriptbasic.com or http://www.mozilla.org/js/ ?

Just my two cents ;)

Keep up great work!

Joost Verburg
17th December 2002 13:30 UTC

A more high-level language is planned for NSIS 3.

kichik
17th December 2002 15:24 UTC

What are you missing in the current scripting language? Why do you think it is not powerful enough? What can't you do with it?

Zaraza
17th December 2002 17:01 UTC

I would die for an

if / then / else

just give me that and I will upgrade to NSIS 3 ASAP! ;)

All these StrCmp / goto / goto labels that I need to go through instead make each script 3 times as large as it should be...

RIV@NVX
17th December 2002 17:19 UTC

Originally posted by Zaraza
I would die for an

if / then / else

just give me that and I will upgrade to NSIS 3 ASAP! ;)

All these StrCmp / goto / goto labels that I need to go through instead make each script 3 times as large as it should be...

rarefluid
17th December 2002 17:21 UTC

If / then / else is nothing else (funny...) than

Strcmp bla1 bla2 "" elsetarget
;dosomething
goto endif
elsetarget:
;doanotherthing
endif:

So the code would be even more, because you can normally brain-optimize some jumps away, but the compiler maybe won't...
Anyway, it would be easier to write, read, maintain and you would make less mistakes...
Let us have it!!!