cli: check minimum sui version

1.63.0 is needed for the new package management flow

Author: kcsongor

cli/src/index.ts

@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ import {
   configureInboundLimitsForPull,
 } from "./limits.js";
 import {
+  checkSuiVersion,
   buildSuiPackage,
   publishSuiPackage,
   findCreatedObject,
@@ -241,6 +242,7 @@ async function withSuiEnv<N extends Network, C extends Chain, T>(
   ch: ChainContext<N, C>,
   fn: () => Promise<T>
 ): Promise<T> {
+  checkSuiVersion();
   console.log("Setting up Sui environment...");
 
   // Store original environment variable

cli/src/suiDeploy.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,48 @@
 import fs from "fs";
 import { execSync } from "child_process";
 
+const MIN_SUI_VERSION = "1.63.0";
+
+function parseVersion(version: string): number[] {
+  return version.split(".").map(Number);
+}
+
+function versionAtLeast(current: string, minimum: string): boolean {
+  const cur = parseVersion(current);
+  const min = parseVersion(minimum);
+  for (let i = 0; i < min.length; i++) {
+    if ((cur[i] ?? 0) > min[i]) return true;
+    if ((cur[i] ?? 0) < min[i]) return false;
+  }
+  return true;
+}
+
+export function checkSuiVersion(): void {
+  let output: string;
+  try {
+    output = execSync("sui --version", { encoding: "utf8" }).trim();
+  } catch {
+    throw new Error(
+      "Could not run 'sui --version'. Is the Sui CLI installed?"
+    );
+  }
+  // Output format: "sui 1.63.2-abc123"
+  const match = output.match(/sui\s+(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)/);
+  if (!match) {
+    throw new Error(
+      `Could not parse Sui version from: ${output}`
+    );
+  }
+  const version = match[1];
+  if (!versionAtLeast(version, MIN_SUI_VERSION)) {
+    throw new Error(
+      `Sui CLI version ${version} is too old. Minimum required: ${MIN_SUI_VERSION}. ` +
+        `Please update with: cargo install --locked --git https://github.com/MystenLabs/sui.git sui`
+    );
+  }
+  console.log(`Sui CLI version: ${version}`);
+}
+
 export function buildSuiPackage(
   packagesPath: string,
   packageName: string,