<div dir="ltr"><div>If by "official release tarball" you are referring to what is in the <a href="https://github.com/blender/blender">blender/blender</a> GitHub repo, that tarball is incomplete. It doesn't contain the other 3 parts.<br></div><div><br></div><div>If instead you are referring to the tarball that is provided at <a href="https://www.blender.org/download/">https://www.blender.org/download/</a>, then yes, that tarball is complete, in that it contains everything that comes from the split-up parts in GitHub. However, that tarball is located at a very non-standard location, and it's been pretty strongly recommended that I try not to deviate too far from what the vast majority of other ports are doing (i.e. downloading sources from GitHub). Basically, I didn't want to draw any ire from the veteran devs. If you're willing to back me up on a decision to go with the single tarball from <a href="http://blender.org">blender.org</a>'s download webpage, I'd be more than happy to go that route as well.<br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>-- </div><div>Jason Liu<br></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 8:24 PM Joshua Root <<a href="mailto:jmr@macports.org">jmr@macports.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 2020-7-18 10:02 , Jason Liu wrote:<br>
> You mean on their git server? Yes, the vast majority aren't included in<br>
> the official release tarballs. Repos like "blender-buildbot",<br>
> "blender-org", "blender-dev-fund", etc. are for their buildbot CI<br>
> server, website, etc. Stuff that I'm sure is important to the Blender<br>
> Foundation, but has nothing to do with Blender the software.<br>
> <br>
> Blender the software is made up of a combination of the tarballs from<br>
> the 4 repos I listed.<br>
<br>
I'm just wondering why you can't use the official release tarball<br>
instead of combining four separate ones downloaded from GitHub.<br>
<br>
- Josh<br>
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