Experimental solc-select with native macOS binaries #38
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Currently,
solc-selectrunssolcin Docker on macOS which turned out to be problematic for some users. This PR presents a Python-based reimplementation using native macOS binaries from https://binaries.soliditylang.org/macosx-amd64/list.json. The binaries go back to 0.3.6 for macOS and 0.4.10 for Linux. Works the same way on Linux and macOS. There are no other dependencies than Python 3.6+.This PR is a WIP to achieve the feature parity with the current
solc-selectand to have a period of time to try it out on real-world scenarios. Despite being a draft, it's already usable and the core features are working.The interface has changed and now all the artifact management is done through
solc-select ...commands. Thesolcscript is just a wrapper dispatching to the set artifact version without any additional functionalities.In action: