[chimerax-users] Access ChimeraX GitHub repository

[Ben Webb]

On 9/28/20 11:08 PM, Greg Couch wrote:
> In the mean time, all of the Python3 source code 
> is available in the ChimeraX download.  Look in 
> CHIMERAX/lib/python3.?/site-packages/chimerax for all of the chimerax 
> modules.  CHIMERAX is the directory you installed ChimeraX in.  And 3.? 
> is 3.7 for the 1.0 and 1.1 releases and 3.8 for the daily build.

Maybe a stupid question, but how are multiple Python versions handled 
with the Toolshed? For example my "RMF" bundle in the Toolshed contains 
a dynamic shared object built against the Python 3.7 API, so if I try to 
install it in the (Python 3.8) nightly build, it doesn't let me (e.g. on 
Mac I get "ERROR: ChimeraX_RMF-0.9-cp37-cp37m-macosx_10_13_x86_64.whl is 
not a supported wheel on this platform.")

Is ChimeraX/Toolshed smart enough that if I build and upload both a 
Python 3.7 and Python 3.8 version of the bundle it will pick the right 
one when a user tries to install it in ChimeraX 1.1 or the nightly 
build? Or can I fool it into using the same binary in both cases? (I 
don't use any private stuff that changed between 3.7 and 3.8 so in 
principle the ChimeraX 1.1 bundle should also work for the nightly.)

BTW, I was surprised to find that
https://cxtoolshed.rbvi.ucsf.edu/search?q=rmf
returns no results even though there it is, plain as day:
https://cxtoolshed.rbvi.ucsf.edu/apps/chimeraxrmf

	Ben
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