On 2020-7-18 10:52 , Jason Liu wrote: > 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 > <http://blender.org>'s download webpage, I'd be more than happy to go > that route as well.
There is no problem whatsoever with downloading a project's official release tarball from wherever they host it. If a lot of ports download from GitHub, that's just because a lot of projects make their releases available there. It's actually preferable not to rely on GitHub's auto-generated tarballs if possible. Some projects upload their proper release tarballs to GitHub, but this one doesn't. - Josh
