Installation dependencies management

Better control of installation dependencies for compatibility with EOSIO

Compatibility with EOS v1.8.0

Merge pull request #172 from tokenika/development

Compatibility with EOS v1.8.0

Native compilation and debugging

• Native compilation and debugging of EOSIO smart contracts.
• Improved startup of the nodeos process: better control on stuck conditions that frequently occur.

Miscellaneous fixes

• Corrected the account method set_account_permission so that it supports adding and removing eosio.code permission.

Miscellaneous improvements

• Record cleos and nodeos command lines in a file.
• Support for compilation of native unit-tests.
• Support for distribution of EOSIO smart-contract projects.

Fix for console output (PR #155)

• Gather console output from all actions (PR #155)
• Support for arbitrary folder structure

Special thanks to the community contributors that submitted patches for this release:

• ysoftware

Compatibility with EOS v1.7.x

• Compatibility with eosio.cdt version 1.6.1 that introduces substantial changes in the Smart-Contract API.
• Removed methods build_wast and build_abi from the class Contract and from derived classes.
• Removed logger.hpp logging facility.
• Compatibility with EOSIDE.

PyPi support & Python linter compatibility

• New alternative syntax introduced for creating references to EOS accounts: foo = new_account(...).
• EOSFactory package can be installed from PyPi repository.
• Compatibility with Python linter: now linter doesn't raise warnings about dynamically created account objects.
• Cleaner code, better documented.

Code-base & documentation overhaul

• General code overhaul & clean-up.
• Documentation improved & revised.
• Introduction of code patterns.
• Several bug fixes.

Compatibility with EOS v1.5.x

• Compatibility with EOSIO v1.5.0
• Support for binary version of EOSIO (while support for a source code build is maintained)
• Smart-contract are built using EOSIO Contract Development Toolkit (CDT)
• Support for setting account and action permissions
• Optional nodeos output to file
• Several bug fixes