Import wants >=0.6.0 but the import of the import is ^0.5.0

Question

that solidity compiling is a mess :frowning:

I’m trying hours to find out why my contracts sometime compile and sometimes not … Now I got it …

I'm using a local ganache server and the online IDE remix.ethereum.org

Want to compile that file:

pragma solidity >=0.6.12;

import "https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts/blob/master/contracts/access/Ownable.sol";

And get this error:

https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts/blob/master/contracts/GSN/Context.sol:1:1: ParserError: Source file requires different compiler version (current compiler is 0.6.12+commit.27d51765.Emscripten.clang) - note that nightly builds are considered to be strictly less than the released version pragma solidity ^0.5.0; ^---------------------^

When I look into the Context.sol (clicking in remix on the error popup):

pragma solidity ^0.5.0;

At github (following the inport link) is it the version:

pragma solidity >=0.6.0 <0.8.0;

Shouldn’t my import import the .sol from its own path? What is going on? Is it possible to “refresh” the compiled files in remix after deploying? - I guess thats the point, because I have another contract that use the older version.

Thanks hope for help :D

EDIT Okay I found out that it doesn't happened when I use the remix with firefox instead of using it with chrome. There is also a libary "github" where openzeppelin is inside, with all the contracts that I import (only that one) but not at the local directory...

Answer 1

The current openzeppelin contracts are using:

pragma solidity >=0.6.0 <0.8.0;

... so I'm not too sure where

pragma solidity ^0.5.0;

actually comes from. You can see here: https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts/blob/master/contracts/GSN/Context.sol

... that is not part of the same release as the rest of files you are using. This could be a case of the pragma doing it's job and alerting you that something is wrong.

Hope it helps.