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==History==

NSIS was created to distribute [[Winamp]]. It is based on a previous [[Nullsoft]] product, PiMP (plugin Mini Packager), and is also known as SuperPiMP. After [[Software versioning|version]] 2.0a0, the project was moved to [[SourceForge]] where developers outside of [[Nullsoft]] started working on it on a regular basis. NSIS 2.0 was released approximately two years later.

NSIS version 1 is in many ways similar to the classic [[Windows Installer]], but it is easier to script and supports more compression formats. NSIS version 2 features a new streamlined [[GUI|graphical user interface]] and supports [[LZMA]] compression, multiple languages, and an easy to use plugin system.