Staking pool contract is out-of-date

[emlautarom1]

Twinstake is building a variation on the staking-pool contract with support for whitelisting. During development, we faced some issues related to the contract dependencies being out of date which are detailed in this PR: twinstake/permissioned-delegation-near#6.

In order to continue development, we would like to know what is the suggested upgrade path for this contract - be it either upgrade dependencies or start from scratch from a different template.

[robert-zaremba]

I wouldn't start from scratch. The contract is battle tested and used in prod.
Better to upgrade or use the old dependencies.

[frol]

I would recommend just upgrading dependencies; it shouldn’t be too hard.

Note, don’t use Rust 1.70+ (use 1.69 or older): near/nearcore#9143

[emlautarom1]

Unfortunately, upgrading dependencies resulted in integration tests to fail. Details about the issues are available here: twinstake/permissioned-delegation-near#8