[jvolkman]

> The parenthesized comment is funnier to me because I had to download a specific bazel version to build.

If you use bazelisk to provide your `bazel` command, it'll download the appropriate Bazel version for the repo you're trying to build.

https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk

[dmitriid]

So, more tools on top of your tools. And this couldn't be a part of bazel proper for the dame reason MS built a separate tool to discover paths for their tools: overengineering