Brownie compiles contracts even when not need - Option to disable

[gnarvaja]

Environment information

• brownie Version: 1.14.6
• ganache-cli Version: 6.12.2
• solc Version: 0.8.6
• Python Version: 3.9.0
• OS: linux (inside docker image)

What was wrong?

When I run any pytest command (even pytest --help), it always compiles the contracts, even when not needed and even when the files didn't changed

pytest --help
Compiling contracts...
  Solc version: 0.8.6
  Optimizer: Enabled  Runs: 200
  EVM Version: Istanbul
Generating build data...
 - BaseAssetManager
 - DataTypes
...

How can it be fixed?

At least it should detect nothing changed and don't run the compilation. But also should be possible to tell with some environment variable or config setting to completely avoid compilation tasks. This can be useful to speed up when testing pure python code.

[cameel]

Might be a duplicate of #956.

[AoDev]

Duplicate of this one (mine) #1096