Upgrade to Bazel 7.2.1

  * Added `.bazelversion` to declare Bazel version
  * Removed unused bazel common dependencies in WORKSPACE
     * Removed `bazel_skylib`
     * Removed `rules_proto`
     * Removed `google_bazel_common`
     * Removed `rules_python`
     * Removed `zlib`
  * Removed obsolete `tools/bazel.rc` config

RELNOTES=N/A
PiperOrigin-RevId: 654352167

Author: bcorso

.bazelrc

@@ -6,3 +6,13 @@ build --host_javacopt=-g
 # TODO(ronshapiro): explore how much work it would be to reenable this
 build --javacopt="-Xep:BetaApi:OFF"
 build --host_javacopt="-Xep:BetaApi:OFF"
+
+# Note: This flag is required to prevent actions from clashing with each when
+# reading/writing tmp files. Without this flag we get errors like:
+#
+#  Error: Cannot use file /tmp/hsperfdata_runner/12 because it is locked by
+#         another process
+#
+# This flag will be enabled by default in Bazel 7.0.0, but for now we enable it
+# manually. For more details: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/3236.
+build --incompatible_sandbox_hermetic_tmp

.bazelversion

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+6.4.0

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -13,9 +13,6 @@ env:
   USE_JAVA_VERSION: '11'
   # This is required by AGP 8.3+.
   USE_JAVA_VERSION_FOR_PLUGIN: '17'
-  # Our Bazel builds currently rely on 6.4.0. The version is set via
-  # baselisk by USE_BAZEL_VERSION: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk.
-  USE_BAZEL_VERSION: '6.4.0'
   # The default Maven 3.9.0 has a regression so we manually install 3.8.7.
   # https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-7679
   USE_MAVEN_VERSION: '3.8.7'

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -12,9 +12,6 @@ env:
   USE_JAVA_VERSION: '11'
   # This is required by AGP 8.3+.
   USE_JAVA_VERSION_FOR_PLUGIN: '17'
-  # Our Bazel builds currently rely on 6.4.0. The version is set via
-  # baselisk by USE_BAZEL_VERSION: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk.
-  USE_BAZEL_VERSION: '6.4.0'
   DAGGER_RELEASE_VERSION: "${{ github.event.inputs.dagger_release_version }}"
   # The default Maven 3.9.0 has a regression so we manually install 3.8.7.
   # https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-7679

WORKSPACE

@@ -26,27 +26,6 @@ local_repository(
     path = "examples/bazel",
 )
 
-#############################
-# Load Bazel Skylib rules
-#############################
-
-BAZEL_SKYLIB_VERSION = "1.5.0"
-
-BAZEL_SKYLIB_SHA = "cd55a062e763b9349921f0f5db8c3933288dc8ba4f76dd9416aac68acee3cb94"
-
-http_archive(
-    name = "bazel_skylib",
-    sha256 = BAZEL_SKYLIB_SHA,
-    urls = [
-        "https://mirror.bazel.build/github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-skylib/releases/download/%s/bazel-skylib-%s.tar.gz" % (BAZEL_SKYLIB_VERSION, BAZEL_SKYLIB_VERSION),
-        "https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-skylib/releases/download/%s/bazel-skylib-%s.tar.gz" % (BAZEL_SKYLIB_VERSION, BAZEL_SKYLIB_VERSION),
-    ],
-)
-
-load("@bazel_skylib//:workspace.bzl", "bazel_skylib_workspace")
-
-bazel_skylib_workspace()
-
 #############################
 # Load rules_java repository
 #############################
@@ -88,32 +67,6 @@ rules_proto_dependencies()
 
 rules_proto_toolchains()
 
-#############################
-# Load Protobuf dependencies
-#############################
-
-# rules_python and zlib are required by protobuf.
-# TODO(ronshapiro): Figure out if zlib is in fact necessary, or if proto can depend on the
-# @bazel_tools library directly. See discussion in
-# https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/pull/5389#issuecomment-481785716
-# TODO(cpovirk): Should we eventually get rules_python from "Bazel Federation?"
-# https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_python#getting-started
-
-http_archive(
-    name = "rules_python",
-    sha256 = "e5470e92a18aa51830db99a4d9c492cc613761d5bdb7131c04bd92b9834380f6",
-    strip_prefix = "rules_python-4b84ad270387a7c439ebdccfd530e2339601ef27",
-    urls = ["https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_python/archive/4b84ad270387a7c439ebdccfd530e2339601ef27.tar.gz"],
-)
-
-http_archive(
-    name = "zlib",
-    build_file = "@com_google_protobuf//:third_party/zlib.BUILD",
-    sha256 = "629380c90a77b964d896ed37163f5c3a34f6e6d897311f1df2a7016355c45eff",
-    strip_prefix = "zlib-1.2.11",
-    urls = ["https://github.com/madler/zlib/archive/v1.2.11.tar.gz"],
-)
-
 #############################
 # Load Robolectric repository
 #############################
@@ -301,8 +254,8 @@ maven_install(
         "org.ow2.asm:asm:%s" % ASM_VERSION,
         "org.ow2.asm:asm-tree:%s" % ASM_VERSION,
         "org.ow2.asm:asm-commons:%s" % ASM_VERSION,
-        "org.robolectric:robolectric:4.4",
-        "org.robolectric:shadows-framework:4.4",  # For ActivityController
+        "org.robolectric:robolectric:%s" % ROBOLECTRIC_VERSION,
+        "org.robolectric:shadows-framework:%s" % ROBOLECTRIC_VERSION,  # For ActivityController
     ],
     repositories = [
         "https://repo1.maven.org/maven2",