code repository are not necessarily git based. Plus you would need to put the effort in monitoring the activity of the repository for changes. Until last month

code repository are not necessarily git based. Plus you would need to put the effort in monitoring the activity of the repository for changes. Until last month, would you refuse a tar package from the official maintainer, I wouldn't, especially when there was a mention of a bugfix that might have been tripping our build system For example nginx is using mercurial (with admittedly a github mirror for convenience), and a lot of OSS are still using subversion and CVS, and my guess is that there are some project which might run with less free source control software ( most likely for historical purpose, or use case that might be the strong point of that software). Other than that, why wouldn't the user be the one to build their own software package.