The main problem is that we want to have code coverage reports on contracts. Zoe can only start a contract from an Installation of a bundle. Currently the Endo bundler is incompatible with code coverage tooling (https://github.com/Agoric/agoric-sdk/issues/1817).
A secondary problem is that unit tests of contracts have to bundle just to be able to run the code that's right there on disk.
Description of the Design
What could solve both these problems is some way to startInstance with some sort of Installation that represents a set of files on disk. (either by being some new kind of installation that's used just for testing, or some new kind of bundle that virtualizes a set of local files).
This would in turn cause Zoe to load the JS code directly from disk, and hopefully then be visible to C8.
What is the Problem Being Solved?
The main problem is that we want to have code coverage reports on contracts. Zoe can only start a contract from an Installation of a bundle. Currently the Endo bundler is incompatible with code coverage tooling (https://github.com/Agoric/agoric-sdk/issues/1817).
A secondary problem is that unit tests of contracts have to bundle just to be able to run the code that's right there on disk.
Description of the Design
What could solve both these problems is some way to
startInstancewith some sort of Installation that represents a set of files on disk. (either by being some new kind of installation that's used just for testing, or some new kind of bundle that virtualizes a set of local files).This would in turn cause Zoe to load the JS code directly from disk, and hopefully then be visible to C8.
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Scaling Considerations
Test Plan
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