Hi Yun,
3.5.1 isn't really actively maintained. But you are right, we are switching to LTS release starting from 4.0.0. Bazel will keep developing at HEAD and have rolling release (eg. 5.0.0-pre.20200315). The LTS version will cherry pick important features, bug fixes, etc that are backwards compatible. 4.1.0 is currently being prepared at https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/13099 <https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/13099>
I see.
I think for every LTS release, we can package Bazel as a separate package, bazel-<major version number>, and bazel-bootstrap can keep track of the latest LTS version (if we want to keep it).Good idea. Though, IMO, to maintain multiple versions, we need a bigger team. To allow coexistence, we also have to figure out a way to deal with "bazel" and other shared stuff, similar to python/python2/python3 troubles.
The next step is to package the bazel-4 package. I have a script <https://github.com/meteorcloudy/bazel/blob/debian-3.4.0-build-with-bazel/debian/build.sh>that was previously shared with Olek, which builds Bazel with Bazel without internet access. Hope it could help. I still need to look into how we can build and package java_tools so that users can use Bazel to build java projects for Debian, (sorry for the delay, Olek).
Thanks. I will take a look. Jesse.
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