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Comment by JacobDi
about NSIS · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful 1 Helpful Report as spam

Very powerful install system! Has plugin for Eclipse. Totally scriptable. 100% localizable - support huge amount of predefine language packs. It took me one day to write the installer, but it's really good, and 100% free!

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