How to prevent files extraction from an Installer created with NSIS?

[T.Slappy]

Originally Posted by JasonFriday13

This is a cool idea from a programmers perspective, but I share the view with Anders. I like being able to open up an nsis installer and extract a file or two that I need.

Adding some sort of randomizing algorithm would appeal to crack writers as it would hide all the code and files from the user. This kind of goes against the philosophy of open source software, where everyone should be able to view and use the software and its source code with a fair amount of freedom.

There is nothing stopping you from forking the codebase and writing in this functionality yourself.

My first idea was to provide all users an option to make an NSIS installer safer.

OK, at the beginning it can be in standard order of EW_s and it can be randomized later when user chose to -let's have an option for this.

This was intended as new feature (discussion) for all users which could help many commercial projects to choose NSIS.

For me it suits recompiling NSIS with changing EW_ in the .h file.