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Subject: RE: include SHA1/MD5 hash/digest of setup.exe, and HTTPS
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor
> Subject: Re: include SHA1/MD5 hash/digest of setup.exe, and HTTPS
> 
> There is another aphorism that trumps all of this: "Someone has to do
> it".  I seem to not be making it clear that it is very unlikely that a
> cygwin site maintainer (me) and a setup.exe developer (to a small degree
> me + others) are all avidly reading these musings and looking for things
> to do.
> 
> Cygwin, like most free software projects, has always been short on doers
> and long on "experts with not enough time".  So, pontificate all you
> want about the best ways to do things but please understand that it's
> likely that nothing you say will have any effect on the project unless
> you are interested in helping out yourself.
> 
> cgf

This deserves to be enshrined somewhere as the canonical (and admirably restrained) answer to "Why doesn't Open Source package X [do|include|implement] Y".

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