Nicholas Pike

So this week at work I am writing a Windows  (XP/Vista/2k) installer for one of our upcoming products… I was asked to evaulate the options currently on the market, mainly the free options.

I settled with the Nullsoft Scriptable Installer from the fine folks of Winamp.  There’s a lot of documentation, some handy tools, and even a neat Eclipse Plugin (eclipse-nsis).

So after a day of developing in the crazy NSIS scripting language I am ready to shoot myself.

Why?  Well here’s some example code and screenshot so that you can see the hell you have to live through to make something simple.

On the bright side: I am awesome, and the final result will be awesome as well.