devsetup.sh fails with current Python and Yarn

[bikubi]

So possibly deeper incompatibilities?
After updating my system (Arch Linux) and (re-)running devsetup.sh I ran into errors and found workarounds:

• Python 3.12 is maybe missing pip? Related workarounds seemed to work for a minute.
  • workaround: downgraded to Python 3.10 via pyenv
• Yarn 1.22.22 and/or node 22.2.0 fail random tasks (e.g. node_modules…exif…yarn install) with a weird "/bin/sh bad interpreter, text file busy" error, at a temporary wrapper script like /tmp/yarn--1716461794779-0.007020274052261355/node. This apparently usually means that an executable file is being edited while executed. Huh.
  • workaround: downgraded to node 16, yarn 1.21 via nvm. Haven't bisected which version is the true culprit here.

[bikubi]

Got it working. Several issues at play.

• Python: still using 3.10 via pyenv
• Python deps: had to downgrade torch to avoid errors re: various cublas/cuda so-files "missing from system path". See commit linked above. Maybe related to Pytorch 2.0.1 pypi wheel does not install dependent cuda libraries pytorch/pytorch#100974
• Yarn issue: /usr/bin/env: 'node': Text file busy apparently points to a problem with new Arch kernel. Downgrading 6.9→6.8 per this comment on docker-node fixed this. Wow.
• Yarn footgun: I re-created the whole setup in a new directory. Yarn kept symlinks to the old directory in, thru several rm -rf node_modules and such. Quick solution was to rm ~/.config/yarn/link/froide-*; yarn unlink would be proper? Symptoms: makerequest.js wasn't transpiled, keeping all import foo from 'foo-no-extension' modules intact. This resulted in (uncircumventable) CORS errors in Firefox and 404s in a lowered-security Chromium, resp.
• Yarn/node versions weren't an issue, setup now works with 22/1.22, sans nvm.

I can't really tell if any of this is relevant to anybody else (in the future), so I'm not closing the issue just yet.

[krmax44]

Most of these should be resolved by new tooling.