[tbb-bugs] #15699 [Tor Browser]: Investigate Bazel for using it as a deterministic builds tool for Tor Browser

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#15699: Investigate Bazel for using it as a deterministic builds tool for Tor
Browser
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 Reporter:  gk           |          Owner:  tbb-team
     Type:  task         |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |      Milestone:
Component:  Tor Browser  |        Version:
 Keywords:  tbb-gitian   |  Actual Points:
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 A while ago Google announced Bazel (http://bazel.io/) which should be
 capable of doing deterministic builds. We might want to investigate
 whether switching to it/integrating it into our current system  would be
 saner as the solution we have right now.

 Note http://bazel.io/FAQ.html section "Will Bazel make my builds
 reproducible automatically?" where a lot of the issues are listed that are
 time-consuming in a Gitian environment as well. Thus, if we switched to
 Bazel we would need to deal with them there, too.

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