Joel ReesAs an alternative, I could download the installer from three or more mirrors and do a binary compare of each copy, but that's kind of abusing the bandwidth. I'm rather considering compiling from source, but I haven't been able to open up enough time yet. Would Cygwin or MinGW be the preferred environment for compiling for source, if checksums are not available for the installer downloads?Has the project posted checksums to check downloads against?I've been looking around <http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/gedit/2.30/>and searching the gnome servers and the web in general for checksums, but I don't see any.
I have permission to install gedit on this MSWindows8 notebook at work, based on the assumption that I am fully confident that there will be no parasitic functionality installed in the process. In the present political climate, I no longer assume that tools like gedit will not be subject to MIM attacks, so I would like to see some assertion from the project that what I have is what the project has put up for download.
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