Support --base-path

[KPrasch]

Overview

I am trying to leverage the --base-path solc feature introduced in version 0.6.9 to reduce complexity handling import remappings, however, there is no kwarg for solc_wrapper mapping to this flag.

Specification

Ideally this feature can be implemented like other CLI flags as a keyword argument:

solc_wrapper(base_path='/some/source/path/dir/', ...)

[iamdefinitelyahuman]

Yeah, that seems useful and easy to expose. I'll try to get a new version out asap.

[iamdefinitelyahuman]

OK I added a quick fix so it's not a blocker. But I also noticed there are quite a few recently added kwargs that lack support!

Long term I think the kwargs should be generalized / future-proofed by regexing the solc --help output. This would also reduce a lot of overhead around checking exactly which flags were added in which version. A few of them require specific logic but the fast majority are just setting a flag or setting a flag and adding a string after it.. shouldn't be that hard to do.

All that said - this will require a decent amount of refactoring, so it's a task for the next major release I think.

[KPrasch]

OK I added a quick fix so it's not a blocker. But I also noticed there are quite a few recently added kwargs that lack support!

Yes - I think the high-velocity API is one of the motives why the py-solc package was abandoned.

Long term I think the kwargs should be generalized / future-proofed by regexing the solc --help output.

Great Idea - Even incrementally, this is useful. You might warn the user when such a forward/backward compatible flag is detected.

All that said - this will require a decent amount of refactoring, so it's a task for the next major release I think.

Agreed. Thanks for putting some focus on --base-paths anyways. :-)