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

Charlie charlies at nowhere.com
Thu Nov 16 12:23:38 PST 2006


I'm all for InnoSetup too , with its pascal type scripting language its 
also capable of some pretty complicated installs, if you need it.

Theres also form designers for InnoSetup ( free ! ) , and other fun 
plugins as well.

Charlie

Bill Baxter wrote:
> 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



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