Getting rid of the cardano-wallet dependency

[koslambrou]

The cardano-wallet dependency brings delays when wanting to update to the latest cardano-node version. Thus, my question is: can you get rid of cardano-wallet completely?

Looking very quickly at the codebase, it seems like you're only using general datatypes declared in cardano-wallet. I think these can get replaced pretty easily by types from cardano-api. Thoughts?

[euonymos]

Hey @koslambrou. This is the really problematic part of the project which hinders maintenance and further development. The reason for that is not only cardano-wallet being a dependency but rather the fact that Plutip uses modified local cluster module(s) to allow altering slot length and epoch size as described here.

So we need a replacement for this part in case we decide to stop using cardano-wallet. In fact, we have to options here:

• treat this code as owned and drop the rest of the cardano-wallet dependencies
• switch to another (better) cluster launcher that can edit genesis file, I guess cardano-testnet from cardano-node.