Multiple distfiles vs "git submodule"

[Jason Liu]

If by "official release tarball" you are referring to what is in the
blender/blender <https://github.com/blender/blender> GitHub repo, that
tarball is incomplete. It doesn't contain the other 3 parts.

If instead you are referring to the tarball that is provided at
https://www.blender.org/download/, 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 blender.org's download webpage, I'd be more than happy to go
that route as well.

-- 
Jason Liu


On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 8:24 PM Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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