Tezos truffle-contract returns BigNumber instead of BN

In the alphaTez branch, I noticed today that the Tezos version of truffle-contract returns BigNumber objects instead of BN. As a matter of standardizing our output, we should move to BN.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Get the alphaTez branch and yarn, yarn bootstrap, etc. (referred to as truffle below)
2. Create a new project using the truffle unbox tezos-example box. Make sure you have all the Tezos requirements (e.g., Docker) installed before continuing.
3. In the project, fire up truffle console, then run deploy. After that, follow the commands below. You’ll see that when reading data from .storage(), we get BigNumber output for integers.

truffle(development)> let instance = await SimpleStorage.deployed()
truffle(development)> await instance.storage()
BigNumber { s: 1, e: 0, c: [ 2 ] }

[gnidan]

These are my take on requirements:

• Truffle must respect the number reformat mechanism
• Truffle should use the same default, no matter what chain

[BearCooder]

Hello @haltman-at & @fainashalts can you please make a statement as to why Tezos support is not a priority anymore? To be honest it leaves a bad taste after the big announcement od Tezos support in Truffle (Twitter and Blogpost) over two years ago. The funny thing is the support didnt last long, less than a year later Truffle started to ghost all issues and update requests on github or stated to do it later… why the sudden change back then?

At least make either make it official and announce that you are not supporting Tezos anymore or at least update Tezos Truffle to current protocol standard. I dont know maybe its a failure on the communication side, maybe Truffle @tcoulter and Tezos Foundation @drchrispinnock need to talk but the current state is unfortunate.