Problem
Currently when you do a base installation of Anchor, you need to install the solana cli. This 280mb package of binaries includes a lot of different commands that developers would never need to run, including an entire validator and additional validator tools. Often times because of this binary, Anchor is subject to confusion on what solana cli someone should be running in order to build Anchor successfully. This leads to dependency issues, troubleshooting, and general friction in the developer experience.
Solution
Remove the solana toolsuite as a prerequisite to building with Anchor. This requires an integration of multiple CLI commands into anchor instead of just calling the external CLI. These commands are as follows:
accountaddressbalanceairdropepochepoch-infologsprogramkeygen
Note: The one thing that will be required to install from Solana Toolsuite would still be platform-tools so that you can compile Solana programs. Given that we'd be removing the dependency on solana CLI, we can better tie the correct platform-tools version to the anchor version underneath build. This way we have less problems building programs today on Solana.
Problem
Currently when you do a base installation of Anchor, you need to install the
solanacli. This 280mb package of binaries includes a lot of different commands that developers would never need to run, including an entire validator and additional validator tools. Often times because of this binary, Anchor is subject to confusion on whatsolanacli someone should be running in order to build Anchor successfully. This leads to dependency issues, troubleshooting, and general friction in the developer experience.Solution
Remove the
solanatoolsuite as a prerequisite to building with Anchor. This requires an integration of multiple CLI commands intoanchorinstead of just calling the external CLI. These commands are as follows:accountaddressbalanceairdropepochepoch-infologsprogramkeygenNote: The one thing that will be required to install from Solana Toolsuite would still be
platform-toolsso that you can compile Solana programs. Given that we'd be removing the dependency onsolanaCLI, we can better tie the correctplatform-toolsversion to theanchorversion underneathbuild. This way we have less problems building programs today on Solana.