Since day 1 the CLI has had the concept of aliases. The idea is that you can assign an alternative name to a contract and its instances. We don’t expect a lot of people to know about this feature because it’s nowadays hidden in the oz create workflow, and contracts are almost always referred to by their name in the source code.
We want to fully remove aliases now, since we don’t think they really contribute to a good experience, and they add a lot of complexity internally. We do recognize that aliases as a building block can be used for many purposes, but in my opinion they are probably never the right abstraction.
As an alternative we will add features that we think make better abstractions, prioritizing them based on user needs: #1490, #1491.
Since day 1 the CLI has had the concept of aliases. The idea is that you can assign an alternative name to a contract and its instances. We don’t expect a lot of people to know about this feature because it’s nowadays hidden in the
oz createworkflow, and contracts are almost always referred to by their name in the source code.We want to fully remove aliases now, since we don’t think they really contribute to a good experience, and they add a lot of complexity internally. We do recognize that aliases as a building block can be used for many purposes, but in my opinion they are probably never the right abstraction.
As an alternative we will add features that we think make better abstractions, prioritizing them based on user needs: #1490, #1491.