Anybody here happen to know anything about NSIS?

I was under the impression that NSIS is supposed to make building an 
installer "easy" - but this is manifestly not the case. The 
documentation is terse and unhelpful, the examples are opaque and don't 
cover what I'm actually trying to do, and it's just extremely hard to 
work out how to do anything.

The installation scripting language is extremely low-level; I'm 
basically having to resort to writing a program in a high-level language 
to autogenerate the NSIS script, because it's too painful to write by hand.

I especially love the way that if you say "install every file that 
matches *.txt", it keeps the directory structure, but it you say 
"install the file doc\v21\readme.txt", it loses the directory structure. 
Really ****ing helpful, that.

I did have a look at MSI, but that's even harder, with even more 
arbitrary limitations.

Man, when I started out yesterday, I thought I was trying to do 
something really easy. I guess not!

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