7z can be used in the same way we use zip in the Windows installer.

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Nsis7z_plug-in

NSIS also supports LZMA (7z) packing of included files natively if we ever wanted to switch away from the net installer and have the files be included in the installer itself.

BA


On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Walter Bright <walter@digitalmars.com> wrote:

On 2/8/2013 11:10 AM, Jordi Sayol wrote:

If split in per-platform zip files is not an option, can the current windows installer handle 7z files?

No. (The installer is on github in the installer project.)

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