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Open source text editor: Syntaxic
https://syntaxiceditor.com
GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
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Installer for Windows #18

Closed nblackburn closed 9 years ago

nblackburn commented 9 years ago

A installer for windows would be nice and recommend NSIS as the best solution for this.

msipos commented 9 years ago

Thanks, @nblackburn .

I just went through the process of making an MSI installer with Wix. I decided on it over NSIS, mostly because it .MSI installers seem more modern to me. Also, MSI allows easy upgrades, something I read is difficult to do with NSIS.

That said, Wix was very hard to get working. The documentation is horrible and tutorials are pretty bad. I'll write a blog post about the script I used to build the MSI package.

I've uploaded the installer here. However, I'd be curious to hear why you prefer NSIS?

nblackburn commented 9 years ago

Easy to learn and very flexible but so is Wix once you understand how windows installer works. I didn't think about Wix at the time of writing.