Gdsfactory-gen Improvments

[alibillalhammoud]

TODOs for improving gdsfactory-gen code. Feel free to add more items here:

• ReadME enhancements + add documentation content to the OpenFASOC docs
• rename pygen
• organize gds files in tapeout_and_RL directory
• import klayout drc code from pdk (.drc script)
• publish package to pypi
• comments regarding port trees
• python notebook demo
• expand the existing docs directory (with the txt files)
• follow up on requirements.txt: GDSFactory, sky130, and GF180 pypi packages cannot be installed at the same time without broken deps
• reformat python docustrings into markdown format for better printing in VScode

[alibillalhammoud]

@saicharan0112 @msaligane @alibillalhammoud

[alibillalhammoud]

Added comments from @harshkhandeparkar

[harshkhandeparkar]

follow up on requirements.txt: GDSFactory, sky130, and GF180 pypi packages cannot be installed at the same time without broken deps

Elaborating on this: gf180 and sky130 have different version requirements of gdsfactory. sky130 requires v7.3.0 and gf180 requires v7.1.4. When either package is installed, it replaces the previously installed version of gdsfactory, leading to broken dependencies. The following error is displayed on installing sky130 after gf180.

Successfully uninstalled gdsfactory-7.1.4
ERROR: pip's dependency resolver does not currently take into account all the packages that are installed. This behaviour is the source of the following dependency conflicts.
gf180 0.0.3 requires gdsfactory[cad]<7.2.0,>=7.1.1, but you have gdsfactory 7.3.0 which is incompatible.
Successfully installed gdsfactory-7.3.0

Even though this error is displayed, the generators still seem to work.

[harshkhandeparkar]

Opened an issue in the relevant gdsfactory repo: gdsfactory/skywater130#73.

[alibillalhammoud]

I am closing this issue and creating a new one as these tasks have been completed or deprecated