It's just not good practice... You should either find a way to automatically download their release with your build system or include their source code as a submodule and automatically build it with your build system (assuming you have a full build system.)
EDIT: BTW the WIP parity benchmark is here, it's not very well-developed since there's a critical bug in SE! causing issues with the benchmark itself: https://github.com/ScratchEverywhere/benchmark