Getting ready for the brave new Bazel Modules world

Update 2025-10-19: I made a searchable index of modules available from my registry at https://www.hdlfactory.com/bazel-registry. As Bazel 9.0 promises to disable the old dependency management approaches based on WORKSPACE by the end of 2025, I figured we should better start preparing. This is my preparation central. Bazel modules promise to usher the era of trivial bazel dependency management.…