Bizarre idea that will never get implemented

I was just reading about the MAKI scripting language used by WinAmp3 and thought "hmm written by the same people as NSIS, wonder whether they'll ever make a version that uses the MAKI scripting engine".... a proper scripting language would be a godsend for NSIS but I guess I'll just have to continue dreaming (or else boost the scripting capabilities of NSIS myself sometime soon 😁)

you don't think NSIS is great where it is?

hmmm, i wonder aboot you 🙂

I think NSIS is great, but I know I'm not the only one who finds it's scripting language lacking. NSIS scripting looks somewhat akin to assembly language and the reason that most people use a higher level language like C/C++ or whatever is that writing in assembler is just too painful most of the time (and takes much more time and effort than using a higher level language). Adding script language features (such as for loops or named variables) wouldn't increase the size of an installer, just the size of the compiler. Therefore I think it's definitely something that should be considered (but it's admittedly not a priority 🙂)

Originally posted by Sunjammer
NSIS scripting looks somewhat akin to assembly language and the reason that most people use a higher level language like C/C++ or whatever is that writing in assembler is just too painful most of the time (and takes much more time and effort than using a higher level language).

That would be very nice, but I think that there are other priorities now. 😁 Maybe for NSIS 3 🙂

I used to code assembler and it was easier...

There was a thread about 6 or 8 months ago about someone who had (was going to?) replace the language NSIS used to have proper functions etc. I thought this was a great idea.

I suppose the current situation if it were to remain could be made a lot better by having a large library of common routines and not telling everyone to just modify 'x' to get 'y'.

I really like NSIS and while I once wrote 2 meg of assembler source for a single program I can't be bothered and haven't got the time to code the NSIS routines I need and this is annoying. The scripting language will be the reason I change from NSIS (if I do).

My 2 cents worth.
Dennis