As I've posted elsewhere ([http://forum.nim-lang.org/t/2679#16589)](http://forum.nim-lang.org/t/2679#16589\)), I think that a good solution would be to use Chocolatey.
There is already a Nim Choco package, but it's way unmaintained: [https://chocolatey.org/packages/nim](https://chocolatey.org/packages/nim) The advantages of Cholocolatey are that its already a well-established app for installing updating all sort of packages that don't come with an installer, and offer the final user a single interfact (ChocoGUI) from which to update all packages. I use it to update Ruby, Node, Go, and other langs, which is much better than having to manually check via the browser if a new release is available, and then go through the whole setup process. Since Choco packages are executed silently, there is no clicking YES, YES, YES ... YES at each update to confirm existing settings. But his also means that a Nim package would have to be thought over carefully, for example: I think tha Aporia IDE and MinGW shouldn't be in the main Nim package because in silent installation the user is not given a choice over these. Maybe multiple Nim packages could be created: Nim 32bit, Nim 64bit, Aporia, and even a Nim package for installing MinGW or TDM-GCC --- which would solve the main issue that started this thread, ie: offer users help on setting up a GCC environment on Windows. I believe that we need an official Nim packages on Chocoloatey, to avoid having yet another umaintained package. Also, since Choco packages are just Powershell scripts, usually hosted on GitHub, the whole process could be integrated into Nim's release cycle: when a new version of Nim is released, some script could automatically edit the strings in the choco-package to the new release number and download link, and push a commit to GitHub and (I guess) even update the package on Choco website. I am convinced that Choco is the easiest solution to maintain, and since it is normal that a software has different choco packages, it would allow to create different setup scripts, covering all possibile needs.
