fail with better error message

[joamatab]

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What happened?

How could we fail with a more descriptive error messages?

https://github.com/gdsfactory/gdsfactory/actions/runs/4276066747/jobs/7443895099

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[jaimergp]

It's a conda incompatibility. This needs repodata patches that haven't been merged on defaults (but conda-forge works):

• https://github.com/AnacondaRecipes/repodata-hotfixes/pull/180

You can pin conda <23.1 for now in your CI.

[dbast]

or you enforce a newer constructor version where this always was correctly pinned: e.g. conda install "constructor>=3.4.2" or conda env create --name constructor "constructor>=3.4.2".

[joamatab]

I tried both pinning conda or enforcing constructor version and the issue persists

https://github.com/gdsfactory/gdsfactory/actions/runs/4396097366/jobs/7698325611

it's interesting that it still builds on windows

[dbast]

Seems like with a completely different error... not able to resolve dependencies.

Can you replace the line in https://github.com/gdsfactory/gdsfactory/actions/runs/4396097366/jobs/7698325611

• conda install "constructor>=3.4.2" -y with e.g. conda create --name constructor "constructor>=3.4.2" -y instead of installing into an existing environment.

Also then requires a conda activate constructor before running constructor.

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