Multiple distfiles vs "git submodule"

[Joshua Root]

On 2020-7-18 10:02 , Jason Liu wrote:
> You mean on their git server? Yes, the vast majority aren't included in
> the official release tarballs. Repos like "blender-buildbot",
> "blender-org", "blender-dev-fund", etc. are for their buildbot CI
> server, website, etc. Stuff that I'm sure is important to the Blender
> Foundation, but has nothing to do with Blender the software.
> 
> Blender the software is made up of a combination of the tarballs from
> the 4 repos I listed.

I'm just wondering why you can't use the official release tarball
instead of combining four separate ones downloaded from GitHub.

- Josh