From 379bdeca06b42a7151a60ae14617117432ceb03d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Araq <rumpf_a@web.de>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 01:32:21 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] disable NSIS installers, ship with downloader.exe instead

---
 compiler/installer.ini | 2 ++
 koch.nim               | 9 +++++++--
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/compiler/installer.ini b/compiler/installer.ini
index ebdbe43e63..31c6f77281 100644
--- a/compiler/installer.ini
+++ b/compiler/installer.ini
@@ -94,6 +94,8 @@ Files: "bin/vccexe.exe"
 
 Files: "koch.exe"
 Files: "finish.exe"
+Files: "downloader.exe"
+
 ; Files: "dist/mingw"
 Files: r"tools\start.bat"
 BinPath: r"bin;dist\mingw\bin;dist"
diff --git a/koch.nim b/koch.nim
index 1d0ece5ffe..2b5e052070 100644
--- a/koch.nim
+++ b/koch.nim
@@ -223,6 +223,8 @@ proc bundleWinTools() =
   copyExe("tools/finish".exe, "finish".exe)
   removeFile("tools/finish".exe)
   nimexec("c -o:bin/vccexe.exe tools/vccenv/vccexe")
+  nimexec("c --cc:vcc --app:gui -o:downloader.exe --noNimblePath " &
+          "--path:..\ui tools\downloader.nim")
 
 proc zip(args: string) =
   bundleNimbleSrc()
@@ -418,8 +420,11 @@ proc winReleaseArch(arch: string) =
     exec "koch_temp nsis -d:release"
     exec "koch_temp zip -d:release"
 
-    moveFile r"build\nim_$#.exe" % VersionAsString,
-             r"web\upload\download\nim-$#_x$#.exe" % [VersionAsString, arch]
+    when false:
+      # we now disable the NSIS installer as it cannot download from https
+      # and is broken in so many different ways it's not funny anymore:
+      moveFile r"build\nim_$#.exe" % VersionAsString,
+               r"web\upload\download\nim-$#_x$#.exe" % [VersionAsString, arch]
     moveFile r"build\nim-$#.zip" % VersionAsString,
              r"web\upload\download\nim-$#_x$#.zip" % [VersionAsString, arch]