Issues caused by the frontend rework

[bwintermann]

Issues that need fixing after we merged #118 into dev.

• Turns out that, apparently, Updated Frontend and Settings #118 accidentally changed the default location of finn_deps to ./finn_deps instead of ~/.finn/finn_deps. This should be changed back for the next release.
• In case that, for example, unzip is not available, the dependency update crashes without specifying the exact error. We should check for all tools that are required (unzip, wget, git, etc.)
• Not a bug, but the more strict deserialization caught a typo in a bench config, fixed in Fix typo in dut file #179
• When executing commands such as finn deps update, due to the default value of finn_build_dir, a local FINN_TMP directory will be created where the finn command was executed.
• Cannot restart from intermediate models because QONNXs' ModelWrapper does not accept Path objects
  • Same goes for the bench configs in finn bench
• Some articles in the wiki still need updates

Slightly related:

• Add fitting default values to make local / non-CI based execution of finn bench smoother (Unless there are for example reasons why a CI_PIPELINE_ID is needed, etc. @fpjentzsch?)

[fpjentzsch]

Add fitting default values to make local / non-CI based execution of finn bench smoother (Unless there are for example reasons why a CI_PIPELINE_ID is needed, etc. @fpjentzsch?)

Don't I have this already?

finn-plus/src/finn/benchmarking/bench.py

Line 108 in 12fedcd

# Launched without SLURM, assume test run on local machine

Maybe the bench_output, bench_save, and bench_work directories this uses could be made configurable.

[bwintermann]

It does run locally, you just need to provide these 3 env vars (CI_PIPELINE_ID, CI_PIPELINE_NAME, LOCAL_ARTIFACTS_DIR) with arbitraty values or it will crash.

[fpjentzsch]

No, I don't have them set locally either. The KeyError is catched in the line I linked.

[LinusJungemann]

Yes, the Key Error is caught, but another error is thrown there too. (I currently do not remember which one, I will have to investigate after the paper is done.)