NSIS has a 2GB installer size limit

[jaimergp]

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Comes from mne-tools/mne-installers#168 (comment). Thanks @larsoner and @hoechenberger for the research.

nsis has a 2GB limit file size. This can be hit if your project adds big things like pytorch, cudatoolkit and others.

There are nsis-derivatives like nsisbi which can increase this limit to 4GB with some trickery, and beyond that with an external file. I don't know how to feel about using nsisbi by default, but we might be able to enable this with a flag, or a new installer_type or something (large-exe?).

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