better-sqlite3 stopped publishing prebuilt binaries for Node 20's ABI
(115) in 12.10.0 - upstream, not a mirror gap:
12.8.0 / 12.9.0 115 127 131 137 141
12.10.0+ 127 137 141 147
`better-sqlite3: ^12.8.0` resolves well past that, so every Node 20
install 404'd on the CDN, fell through to the source build, and demanded
Python plus a C++ toolchain before the bot could start at all. package.json
went on claiming `^20.19.0` worked, and the README went on recommending
Node 20 as one of two blessed versions. It was not a supported
configuration in any meaningful sense - it was a trap.
So say so up front: engines, both setup scripts, and the Docker images now
require Node 22.12+ (or 24+, which still needs a source build for opus).
The version gate in setup.bat / setup.sh is kept byte-identical to the
engines range, as before.
Also copy scripts/lib/console-log.mjs into the production image. The
previous commit had check-native.mjs import it, and the Dockerfile copies
check-native.mjs in on its own for `docker exec ... npm start` - without
its dependency that preflight now dies with ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND.
BREAKING CHANGE: Node 20 is no longer supported. Node 22.12 LTS or newer
is required; setup refuses to run on anything older.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
setup.bat runs `chcp 65001` and shows binary progress on stderr. On some
Windows consoles - the reporter's Windows Server 2012 R2 above all - that
code page cannot render non-ASCII text and the OS fails the write with
EIO. process.stderr is an ordinary stream, so the EIO arrived as an
'error' event, and with no listener attached Node rethrew it as an
uncaught exception:
Error: write EIO { errno: -4070, code: 'EIO', syscall: 'write' }
at log (scripts/download-binaries.mjs:84:18)
at ensureFfmpeg (scripts/download-binaries.mjs:451:5)
Those two frames pin it exactly: line 84 is `process.stderr.write`, and
line 451 is the first log line of the whole run that contains Chinese.
The three lines before it are pure ASCII and printed fine. Nothing was
wrong with the download it was announcing - setup killed itself inside
its own progress logging and reported the native modules as unusable.
scripts/lib/console-log.mjs now wraps both streams: it listens for
'error' so the failure can never be fatal, then degrades that stream
rather than dying - first to an ASCII rendering that keeps the English
half of each bilingual line, then silent if the stream is really gone.
The streams degrade independently, so a console that gives up costs
setup.log nothing: that stdout is a redirected file. check-native.mjs
gets the same treatment, since the console that cannot print its Chinese
is exactly the one a user needs its English from.
Also report a 404 honestly. better-sqlite3 dropped its Node 20 (ABI 115)
prebuilds in 12.10.0 and @discordjs/opus 0.10.0 has none for Node 24, so
users on those majors fall through to the source build and are told to
install Python and a C++ toolchain - when switching Node major takes two
minutes. Nothing in the output said so, and the README recommended
Node 20 as if it still worked.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
