Multiple distfiles vs "git submodule"

[Joshua Root]

On 2020-7-18 08:41 , Jason Liu wrote:
> Blender runs their own git server <http://git.blender.org/> to store
> their codebase. They provide read-only mirrors to GitHub, which is where
> I get the distfiles from:
> 
>   * blender/blender <https://github.com/blender/blender>
>   * blender/blender-translations
>     <https://github.com/blender/blender-translations>
>   * blender/blender-addons <https://github.com/blender/blender-addons>
>   * blender/blender-addons-contrib
>     <https://github.com/blender/blender-addons-contrib>

OK, so at least some of these are not included in the official release
tarballs?

- Josh