Documentation issue: Installing Bazel using Bazelisk
#13,070 opened on Feb 20, 2021
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Documentation URL: https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/install-bazelisk.html
This page suggests using go get to install Bazelisk in some cases, but that doesn't actually produce a bazel binary that users can invoke.
This is closely related to the Bazelisk issue: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/issues/162 I'm filing this issue mostly to make sure that Bazel's documentation gets updated to match.
But maybe the Bazel docs could be updated more rapidly in the interim to make it clear what users are supposed to do in addition to go get to install Bazelisk on platforms without Homebrew or NPM.
FWIW, I also don't really understand how to follow the instructions to "use the binary release" -- the releases aren't in any standard package format and so it isn't clear what exactly is the correct process to install and use those binary releases.