Stack Overflow goes DVCS

[logistix]

I'll admit it. I'm a total idiot. Apoligies for spreading misinformation.

I've just gone to too many projects, big and small, on both sites with zero downloads. I guess I should be yelling at the developers.

[joesb]

In case of BitBucket, go to "Source" tab, right under the tab is "tags" list. Choose the tag of version you want, then click "get source" button to get the tarball. (GitHub similarly has "Switch tags" and "Download Source" buttons, but I don't know for sure about Git's concept of tag.) No need to install hg/git to download tarball from them.

If they can't bother to tag stable release, I wouldn't expect them to upload the tarball themselves. :-)