Nullsoft Install System (NSIS) 2.38

Publisher's Description:

Nullsoft Install System (NSIS) is a small, efficient, capable installation system for win32. It is completely free and open source.

Latest Changes:

• Fixed a bug in nsDialogs that caused it to pollute the stack if callbacks are not set for each control (bug #2013317)
• Added IfNotThen support for LogicLib (patch #1990761)
• Added support for NTFS mounts points on the directory page (bug #1946112)
• Fixed branding image control detection on Debian, due to improper identification of static controls (bug #1951417)
• Log actual creation of directories and not just failures and final directory (patch #1992325)
• Made log close when LogSet off is used (patch #1986692)
• Minor documentation improvements (including bug #1990955)
• MultiUser: Fixed MULTIUSER_INSTALLMODE_INSTDIR handling for the uninstaller
• Document page leave callback function (bug #1964719)
• Fixed MUI_FINISHPAGE_CANCEL_ENABLED
• Fixed wasted variable warnings (bug #1995024)
• Fixed French translation of MUI_UNTEXT_FINISH_INFO_REBOOT (patch #1967032)
• Removed non-ANSI characters from French display name (bug #1979491)
• Updated Slovenian (patch #2014106)

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Latest User Reviews:

Reviewer:	jcollake	Apr 24, 2008
Version:	2.36
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.
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Reviewer:	guti	Mar 31, 2008
Version:	2.36
Althought it lacks a native Win64 port, and still has no BCJ filter for compressing EXE, it is the best installer tool.
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Reviewer:	PostDeals	Apr 30, 2007
Version:	2.26
Awesome product, stable and FREE. Keep up the great work Open Source.
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Reviewer:	DaveGB	Apr 2, 2007
Version:	2.25
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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Reviewer:	SWortham	Feb 22, 2007
Version:	2.24
So you know where I'm coming from, I was using InstallShield for about 6 months. I wrote about 20 different installers with it and eventually got fed up with its awful support for what I considered simple custom tasks. When I eventually figured out how to do some of what I wanted, I still faced problems with InstallShield's flaky behavior. So I tried a few other installers and eventually came to NSIS. I used the HM NIS Edit tool to build my first NSIS installer. The wizard took me through the basic steps of creating my first installer, and it wrote the code I needed to get started. The code was a little weird at first but I'm a programmer so I got the hang of it eventually. I was able to do EVERYTHING I wanted with NSIS. I'm using it on a fairly large scale and I've had absolutely no complaints with flaky behavior from thousands of users now. On top of that, the final executable NSIS produces is much smaller than an equivalent InstallShield exe. And an NSIS installer performs the installation MUCH faster than InstallShield as well. So for me it was a no brainer. Once I got over the initial learning curve of NSIS I never looked back. I highly recommend it for any programmer who wants to build good Windows Installer packages for their software.
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