Create a binary packager for Bazel This packager can be called by the release scripts to generate a self-extractable bash installer for Bazel. This script was tested by hand as extra arguments can be specified to change the default install of Bazel (default is system-wide and with the argument you can make a user install). This will be the only packager for now since GitHub is offering the possibility to download the source tree as a ZIP. Hopefully, before the end of the year we could build some more package kind. -- Change-Id: I1a2d0cd39b9e4adcaf6c984ec4c855a04213b61a Reviewed-on: https://bazel-review.googlesource.com/1581 MOS_MIGRATED_REVID=99258828
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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.
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