feat(cli,fill): make the eip version checker a separate pytest cli tool

[danceratopz]

🗒️ Description

• Don't load the pytest_plugins.spec_version_checker.spec_version_checker plugin as part of fill or execute.
• Allow specification of a Github PAT to avoid Github API rate limiting.
• Create a new separate pytest-based CLI check_eip_versions that only performs EIP spec version checking in a pytest session.
• Add a new Github Action to run check_eip_versions daily and create an issue upon failure (example issues chore(tests): eip spec references outdated #1553 (prague mismatches only) and chore(tests): eip spec references outdated #1552 (all forks).

Note

This PR unfortunately adds a new pytest ini pytest-check-eip-versions.ini which is essentially a duplicate of fill's pytest.ini. This is an ugly code duplication, that will likely cause check_eip_versions to break if fill's options get changed w/o changing the check_eip_versions pytest ini. The issue is that the pytest_plugins.spec_version_checker.spec_version_checker needs to be loaded first, which doesn't seem to be possible if used in conjunction with -c pytest.ini.

🔗 Related Issues

Fixes #533, #1552, #1553

• bug(fill): fix misleading test collection reporting in terminal output #533
• chore(tests): eip spec references outdated #1552
• chore(tests): eip spec references outdated #1553

Todo before merge

• Update docs (adding a PAT, etc).
• Update references.
• Remove "on pull request" / "on push" build triggers in action (testing only).

✅ Checklist

• All: Set appropriate labels for the changes.
• All: Considered squashing commits to improve commit history.
• All: Added an entry to CHANGELOG.md.
• All: Considered updating the online docs in the ./docs/ directory.

[marioevz]

Left just one comment regarding the frequency of the runs for the new CI workflow.

[spencer-tb]

Tagging this comment, as another alternative to prevent rate limiting! I really think we should use it. Essentially a single endpoint call that gets all the EIP sha's at once! Check it out :)

https://api.github.com/repos/ethereum/EIPs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

#1357 (review)

[danceratopz]

Tagging this comment, as another alternative to prevent rate limiting! I really think we should use it. Essentially a single endpoint call that gets all the EIP sha's at once! Check it out :)

https://api.github.com/repos/ethereum/EIPs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

#1357 (review)

That's a nice solution, but I'm out of steam for this topic/PR. For now this (or using a env var) is working nicely:

uv run check_eip_versions --github-token=(gh auth token)

Tbh, the plugin should be re-written to not collect the evm python test cases at all (it currently collects ~50,000 test cases). I think it should be possible to simply discover test modules (containing "eip") and then create the eip version check test.

Feel free to PR your suggestion, if you fancy. Otherwise, we collect these ideas into a follow-up issue.

[spencer-tb]

Created an issue :)

[marioevz]

LGTM, thanks!