| commit | 1b4b3417bd05b6163824b7147e333f46686ca2be | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Klaus Aehlig <aehlig@google.com> | Wed Oct 12 08:11:45 2016 +0000 |
| committer | Yue Gan <yueg@google.com> | Wed Oct 12 08:57:14 2016 +0000 |
| tree | 607d95cc222c08384cadc0c5cc8777a670308618 | |
| parent | 629084f5637d0b0a4ea10772e05c681881f511fa [diff] |
Add a design document on a distribution artifact for bazel With bazel sources depending on checked-in binaries for the supported platforms, porting bazel to a new platform is hard; that approach also doesn't scale well if we want to support users on more platforms. This design document suggests an alternative approach based on creating a zip-archive that, besides all sources, also contains the generated output of the protoc actions. From this archive, bazel can be bootstrapped without depending on the right protoc on the target platform. -- Change-Id: I401452435ed4189ea95260961d981ccc99a98560 Reviewed-on: https://bazel-review.googlesource.com/#/c/6530 MOS_MIGRATED_REVID=135891242
{Fast, Correct} - Choose two
Bazel is a build tool that builds code quickly and reliably. It is used to build the majority of Google‘s software, and thus it has been designed to handle build problems present in Google’s development environment, including:
A massive, shared code repository, in which all software is built from source. Bazel has been built for speed, using both caching and parallelism to achieve this. Bazel is critical to Google's ability to continue to scale its software development practices as the company grows.
An emphasis on automated testing and releases. Bazel has been built for correctness and reproducibility, meaning that a build performed on a continuous build machine or in a release pipeline will generate bitwise-identical outputs to those generated on a developer's machine.
Language and platform diversity. Bazel's architecture is general enough to support many different programming languages within Google, and can be used to build both client and server software targeting multiple architectures from the same underlying codebase.
Find more background about Bazel in our FAQ.