Migrate to Bzlmod for managing external dependencies

[meteorcloudy]

With future Bazel LTS versions, Bzlmod will become the default system for external dependencies management.

Please consider migrating all your external dependencies in WORKSPACE to MODULE.bazel

For more information, please check https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/18958

Related issue is https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/issues/13618, but #13618 is more about providing a Bazel modules for users, this one is for tracking the migration of protobuf itself to use Bzlmod for managing both prod and dev external deps.

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[meteorcloudy]

ping, to keep it active

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[aaliddell]

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[ianb-pomelo]

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[ianb-pomelo]

This is still active and will help downstream migration to BZLMOD

[zhangskz]

Should be able to close this with the addition of MODULE.bazel since ~v27.x. See https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-central-registry/tree/main/modules/protobuf.

Please reopen (or file a new issue) for any dependencies missing in bzlmod.

[Mizux]

Protobuf still use workspace as default, please edit the issue description to "Add support to bzlmod" OR reopen this issue until Protobuf default to bzlmod...

src: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/233098326bc268fc03b28725c941519fc77703e6/.bazelrc#L31-L33 note: (same on v29.2 or today's main)

PS: Could be also good to label properly this issue and also use "milestone" with a version ? (so downstream google project like google/or-tools or pybind/pybind11_protobuf can easily track and follow your roadmap...)