Last DMD made me truly breathless -- for the wrong reasons

[Bill Baxter]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> Anders F Björklund wrote:
> 
>>
>> I think the Nullsoft installer system (NSIS) is great, and recommend it.
>> It's easy to use, open source, and creates low overhead installers EXEs.
> 
> 
> I gave this a glance yesterday and it looks great.  Must better than 
> Installshield for the average case.

My 2 cents is that InnoSetup is the best for simple cases where you 
don't need much custom logic, you're just installing some files, and 
maybe setting a few environment variables.

NSIS is best if you need very specialized custom behavior like an 
internet-aware installer or something like that.  But it's a more 
complicated than InnoSetup to use for the simple cases.  For instance 
With NSIS, you have to provide a list of all files to install, *and* all 
files to uninstall (even though they are usually pretty much the same). 
  NSIS's way is more general, but more tedious.

--bb