Developing a new standard library

Any developer can publish new ZeppelinOS stdlib releases. The zos command allows developers to go through this process seamlessly, by creating packages that handle the different versions of the stdlib.

The first step is creating a standard library package with the following command:

zos init --lib <package-name>

Initializing the package will create a zos.json file that tracks the contracts included in the standard library release. After this first step, the desired contracts can be added to the package through:

zos add <contract-name-1> <contract-name-2> ... <contract-name-n>

Finally, we need to deploy the Package, the specific Release of the stdlib, and the individual library contracts. All of this is accomplished by doing:

zos push --network=<network>

This completes the deployment of the new stdlib release to the chosen network.

Do this for every network you want to support in your stdlib release, and publish it on npm with the same name you used in the zos init command.

Once it's published, send your standard library package name to other developers to get them to use it! (by running zos link with your package name)