Inno Setup was created by Jordan Russell and is currently maintained by Martijn Laan (since 5.4.3, released in 2011).
The following is a list of those who have contributed significant code to the Inno Setup project, or otherwise deserve special recognition:
- Jean-loup Gailly & Mark Adler: Creators of the zlib
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compression library that Inno Setup uses. - Julian Seward: Creator of the bzlib compression library that Inno Setup uses.
- Igor Pavlov: Creator of the 7-Zip and LZMA SDK libraries that Inno Setup uses.
- Vince Valenti: Most of the code for the "Window" [Setup] section directives (1.12.4 - 6.3.3).
- Joe White: Code for ChangesAssociations [Setup] section directive (1.2).
- Jason Olsen: Most of the code for appending to existing uninstall logs (1.3).
- Martijn Laan: Rich Edit 2.0 & URL detection support (1.3.13); Silent uninstallation (1.3.25); System image list support in drive and directory lists (1.3.25); Silent installation (2.0); The [Types], [Components] and [Tasks] sections (2.0); The postinstall flag (2.0); The [Code] section (4.0); Subcomponents and subtasks support (4.0); Many other features after 4.0.
- Alex Yackimoff: Portions of TNewCheckListBox (4.0); ISPP (5.4.1).
- Carlo Kok: RemObjects Pascal Script (4.0).
- Creators of SynEdit: The syntax-highlighting editor used in the Compiler IDE (2.0 - 5.2.4).
- Creators of UniSynEdit: The syntax-highlighting editor used in the Compiler IDE (5.3 - 5.3.11).
- Creators of Scintilla: The syntax-highlighting editor used in the Compiler IDE (5.4).
- Zaher Dirkey: Initial work on improved right-to-left languages support (5.2.3).
- Evgeny Karpov of RemObjects Software: Initial work on Unicode support (5.3).
- Motaz Alnuweiri: 128x128 and 256x256 sizes of the Compiler IDE and document icons (5.5.3).
- DRON: Code for the improved image stretching (5.6).
- Sherlock Software: Most of the code for the CreateCallback support function (6.0).
- Vizit0r: Code for the "Debug Call Stack" view (6.0.3).
- Cristoph Nahr: Code for the .NET version detection (6.0.4).
- Sergii Leonov: Code for the Compiler IDE's MsgBox tool (6.1.0) and initial work on its [Registry] tool (6.3.0).
- Jens Geyer: Initial work on closeable tabs in the Compiler IDE (6.3.0).
- ser163: Code for the Compiler IDE's [Files] tool (6.3.0).
Special thanks to everyone answering questions on the forum and on Stack Overflow, especially: Gavin Lambert, Deanna Hants, Jernej Simončič, Martin Prikryl and TLama.