Only warn when attempting to install an AMD64 EXE installer on ARM64 - #1337
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The architecture checks introduced in #1323 for EXE installers prevent the installation of an AMD64 EXE installer onto an ARM64 system. ARM64, however, can run AMD64 executables with emulation. Instead of aborting, issue a warning to the user. Non-interactive installations will continue whereas the user is presented with a choice about whether they wish to continue (see screenshots).
I also used the opportunity to add output for non-interactive installations for the other checks and remove hard-coded line breaks (NSIS does it automatically).
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newsdirectory (using the template) for the next release's release notes?