Reviews of NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

1. 
   mkeeley

   Reviewing 2.40 (Oct 13, 2008)

   I used to use and support NSIS all the time as it used to be a simple elegant yet powerful solution however as time has gone by it has become a clunky mess. Now use InnoSetup and can't see a time I'd go back unless NSIS was re-written from scratch.
2. 
   jcollake

   Reviewing 2.36 (Apr 24, 2008)

   Fyi on previous comment: BCJ & BCJ2 is included with LZMA, which I assume most people will be choosing with NSIS. The most critical thing is to enable BLOCK support so the whole bunch of files is essentially TAR'd together first. This improves compression substantially since the LZ 'dictionary'/window spans across all the files.
3. 
   guti

   Reviewing 2.36 (Mar 31, 2008)

   Althought it lacks a native Win64 port, and still has no BCJ filter for compressing EXE, it is the best installer tool.
4. 
   PostDeals

   Reviewing 2.26 (Apr 30, 2007)

   Awesome product, stable and FREE. Keep up the great work Open Source.
5. 
   DaveGB

   Reviewing 2.25 (Apr 2, 2007)

   We used to use Installshield Pro for many years, and it was horrendous. We had a list of install defects as long as our arms, developers always had issues creating installs, and if you wanted to do anything outside the norm, you were asking for trouble.
   
   We switched to NSIS, 2.5 years ago, we now have no serious install defects, and everything runs smoothly, if we need to do anything out of the norm, it's a doddle using plugins.
   
   Moving to NSIS was the best decision we ever made.

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