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A solc version manager
solcvm is a solc version manager that lets you install and manage different versions of solc.
This tool depends on node and npm. Ensure both are installed in the system.
npm install -g solcvm to install it.
solc version
solcvm install x.y.z. It will install the x.y.z version of the solc compiler, if it is not already installed.solc version
solcvm uninstall x.y.z. It will uninstall the x.y.z version of the solc compiler, if it is already installed.solcvm using x.y.z contract.sol would run the contract using the x.y.z version of solc.
solcvm contract.sol would try to grab the solidity version from the file, if no version of the compiler is specified in the pragma directive, it will use the latest version of the solidity installed. It supports pragma directive of the form of ^x.y.z as well as x.y.z.Use npm install or yarn to install the dependencies.
Run npm run test to run the tests and npm run test:coverage to view the test coverage.
FAQs
A `solc` version manager
We found that solcvm demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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