[gs-devel] Re: new GS-Installer based on NSIS |

[Russell Lang]

Ray, Martin,

> > I've wrote a new installer for your latest release of Ghostscript (v8.50) because I don't like your ZIP-Installer.
> > Choosing LZMA compression in NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) the whole archive shrinks to 7.4 megabyte.
> > I think the gain of 3 megabyte is worth to take a look at the NSIS-Installer !

I don't particularly like the zip installer either, and I wrote it.  
However the zip installer has two big advantages at the moment:
 - You can easily unzip the archive to see what is within.
 - It will install on Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.

I looked at NSIS a month or two ago while adding the x64 support to 
Ghostscript, and found that NSIS does not yet support x64.  This is 
needed - a Win32 installer will put executables and registry entries 
in the wrong place.