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replace nsis installer by .msi installer

Open dlangBugzillaToGithub opened this issue 10 years ago • 1 comments

Martin Nowak (@MartinNowak) reported this on 2015-11-23T00:01:59Z

Transferred from https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15375

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  • steven kladitis

Description

The NSIS installer system is quite dated, requires to write hard to maintain (asm like) scripts, necessary plugins are no longer maintained (and only available as binaries [¹]), and .msi installer are supposed to be better integrated with Windows [²].

[¹]: https://dlang.dawg.eu/downloads/others/
[²]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Installer

Regarding different msi installers, we got a recommendation for Inno Setup.
http://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]
http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php

dlangBugzillaToGithub avatar Nov 23 '15 00:11 dlangBugzillaToGithub