Archive: nsis rocks, 'thank you!' to the developers


nsis rocks, 'thank you!' to the developers
Just want to pass on my thanks and words of encouragement to anyone who helps develop NSIS.

I had to develop an installer for an internal app used in my dept. @ work. I finally settled on a wham-bam-gui kind of installer program (InstallAnywhere). After several hours of fits and starts I got the thing to work. It wrapped a jre around the thing and bloated out to 8 or 9 mb. Yuck!

So, my machine went to toast and I had to recreate the install from scratch. Lo and behold, NSIS to the rescue! In less than an hour I created an install that worked great across all required platforms and was only 1.5 mb! Yay! The scripting method kicks ass, the examples were great, and the docs complete. What a great tool.

Thanks,
Jon Allen


Glad you like. I am not one of the developers, but I know what you mean. What you could do is spread the word on NSIS and (if you want to) develop for NSIS. NSIS is a community effort and it would be nice to see some new developers give something to NSIS. Welcome to the community.

-Duane