Hi folks,
(Is it okay if I refer to GnuCash as GC?) Appologies in advance if not. 🙂

I was looking to build GC for Windows and I had some questions because I tend 
to be VERTy paranoid about what I install on my box.

I started looking at 
Gnucash/gnucash-on-windows<https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-on-windows> and I 
noticed that at least some of the URLs where packages are downloaded are from 
HTTP not HTTPS urls.  It also appeared (without detailed investigation to 
verify) that the tarballs coming from these places also didn't have any 
hash-based or digital-signature verification.

The upshot of all this was I didn't feel very comfortable running the 
environment build scripts/tools because it looked like it would be downloading 
and running a lot of unverified tools and content on my machine.

So, I'm just wondering if this is something you have considered, or maybe even 
estimated how much work would be involved in tackling it?

Also (and I'm, not sure if this would tend to require fewer tool dependencies 
or not) - has anyone looked at whether it would be possible to build GC for 
Windows _from_ WSL using the minwg packages available (e.g.) in Ubuntu?

-Brad
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