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If android switches to bazel now that bazel is 1.0 does that mean we can switch from a completely undocumented tool to a poorly documented tool?

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Bazel documentation is fine from what I've seen. Moreover if you ask questions on Stack Overflow, members of the Bazel team will often respond (kudos especially to László for his support on SO).

> completely undocumented tool

Gradle is far from "completely undocumented". Unless you mean Android Gradle Plugin, which surprisingly _is_ somewhat documented, although the docs are tough to accidentaly just stumble by

I was actually refering to Soong not Gradle. Soong has been replacing makefiles since android 7. Given that incremental builds are more of a "hopeful aspiration" rather than "something that actually works" in Android 6, I can't blame them too much for doing a major reworking.

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