Made version failure message better reflect the issue (bazel-contrib#717)

jdob · web-flow · commit d1d230816092 · 2022-05-31T17:00:33.000-07:00
I ran into a sitation that triggered this failure. I have version 5.0.0 installed, so it was confusing to see a message telling me my version was lower than 0.2.1.
diff --git a/third_party/github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-skylib/lib/versions.bzl b/third_party/github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-skylib/lib/versions.bzl
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ def _check_bazel_version(minimum_bazel_version, maximum_bazel_version = None, ba
     """
     if not bazel_version:
         if "bazel_version" not in dir(native):
-            fail("Current Bazel version is lower than 0.2.1; expected at least {}".format(
+            fail("Bazel version cannot be determined; expected at least {}".format(
                 minimum_bazel_version,
             ))
         elif not native.bazel_version:
