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NSIS (created also by Nullsoft) was particularly awesome, made it a breeze to build a Windows installer. There was also a photo gallery script Justin created wh

• nickpsecurity 10y ago
  That was good. I remember using it over Visual Studio a few times. One of those things that shows you that your main vendor is making things way more complicated than they need to be.
• dchest 10y ago
  It's still alive — latest release December 11, 2016! Two years ago I worked on an Electron-based app for Windows. I tested* it right on my dev machine in Electron for Linux _and_ the whole build process, including the NSIS-based installed also ran on Linux via makensis utility, so I didn't even have to touch Windows until the final QA phase. This was very nice.
  • sigil 10y ago
    NSIS is more than alive for Electron apps -- it's about to become the default windows installer in electron-builder! Squirrel.windows will be deprecated soon.
• raverbashing 10y ago
  Oh I had forgotten about that I used this in a couple of projects, and it was one of the easiest to use (still, it had good scripting possibilities)
• nickcw 10y ago
  NSIS aka Nullsoft Superpimp Install System was a great program, and the fact you could run the installer creator on Linux was a boon. I seem to remember the scripting language was a bit... eccentric, but it got the job done for us in the mid 2000s distributing a cross platform C++ app which was cross compiled on Linux.