nsis-dev/nsis
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***This is just a mirror of https://sf.net/projects/nsis -- please report issues there*** NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source system to create Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore very suitable for internet distribution.
3 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 0 stories, 3 comments · first 2016-08-09 · latest 2024-07-31
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Yeah he loves that stuff. https://github.com/kichik/nsis/blob/b4f28a7071dcd0bf3bcdb766...
comment by kichik · 2024-07-31 · in Foobar2000 -
Eye-opening but probably not "best": the Nullsoft Installer, circa 2002 ( https://github.com/kichik/nsis ). Its goal, besides being an installer, was to produce a small binary. So the source was remarkably pithy, which taught me a lot…
comment by sowbug · 2022-09-11 · in Ask HN: What's the best source code you've read? -
…move to GitHub one day, but it'll be a sizable project. There is already a mirror of the code on https://github.com/kichik/nsis and hopefully more will come in the future. As for SourceForge injecting adware, they only do that to dead…
comment by kichik · 2016-08-09 · in NSIS 3.0 ready