Amir Szekely

Ubuntu 14.04 EOL'ed 7 years ago. Not even sure when 12.04 did. Python 2 EOL'ed 6 years ago. We are talking developing NSIS itself here. Pretty much the three people in this conversation are it. Linux distributions also package their own, but they mostly only update versions that are still in use and not EOL'ed. I would argue anyone who cares enough to build their own up-to-date NSIS, would probably care enough to have a moderatly up-to-date OS. Do we really want to limit ourselves to Python 2 backward...

Python 3.6 EOL'ed over 4 years ago. What Linux are you using that is on something older than 3.6?

Please document the effect of SetOutPath on the archive location

There is no directory structure at all. 7-zip reverse engineers the script to try and deduce a directory structure. That can never be totally accurate as the script has runtime dependencies. Sorry but this is not going to be documented or supported. NSIS installers are not archives. 7-zip might be interested in enhancing their reverse engineering to support such use cases.

Are you talking about the directory structure that appears when you open the installer in 7-zip? That is not a real directory structure. Our installers don't have an actual archive embedded in them. At least not one in any commonly used format that supports directory structures. That structure seems to be deduced from script ops based on your findings. This would be an issue with the heuristics used by 7-zip. I have noticed some other oddities with, for example, the plugins folder over the years....

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-43715

More details for security issue with NSIS <3.11

Failing to report CreateRestrictedDirectory error