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Dwedityesterday at 1:04 AM3 repliesview on HN

7-Zip 15.05 is still useful today, because it was the last version to include built-in support for decompiling NSIS installer scripts. The feature was removed due to security concerns.


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mmebaneyesterday at 2:54 AM

I've not personally used it, but there's a fork that adds NSIS decompilation back in: https://github.com/myfreeer/7z-build-nsis

parlortricksyesterday at 1:19 AM

Why is decompiling NSIS a security concern?

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NooneAtAll3yesterday at 1:30 AM

what is NSIS?

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