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Opened 3 years ago
Last modified 3 years ago
#7626 assigned defect
On windows all of ChimeraX lives under C:\\...\\ChimeraX.app\\bin\\
| Reported by: | Zach Pearson | Owned by: | Greg Couch |
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| Priority: | low | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Build System | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Notify when closed: | Platform: | all | |
| Project: | ChimeraX |
Description
I was playing whack-a-mole over the weekend with ChimeraX's app dirs definitions and noticed Windows has an odd folder structure.
On Windows, ChimeraX.app has bin, include, and lib at the top level. The latter two are not long for this world, pending the conversion of binary bundles to TOML bundle builder -- they only hold libraries and includes from our packages for the old build system.
It seems like everything in bin should be moved to ChimeraX.app
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Change History (11)
comment:1 by , 3 years ago
comment:2 by , 3 years ago
No. For example on Linux lib includes other useful libraries and crucially Python, and include also has python3.9.
But on Windows there are only those 3 folders and nothing else in the top level. It seems like keeping with the other platforms the stuff in the include and lib folders should go in folders that are in bin right now. I'll attach screenshots
comment:4 by , 3 years ago
Yes, I saw that too. Are you saying that you want to break user's scripts?
comment:5 by , 3 years ago
Not at all. It was just unexpected to see and I wondered if it was a bug.
comment:6 by , 3 years ago
| Component: | Unassigned → Build System |
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comment:8 by , 3 years ago
(An aside, please don't use png files if possible. Text files are much more useful.)
It is certainly not a bug when it is bin, lib, and include. It's only if it is only bin, that it looks odd. And if that were the original configuration, we probably would have elided the bin directory. But it wasn't. So now we need to maintain compatibility whenever we make changes. But, there is also the proposed incompatible change of renaming ChimeraX-console to ChimeraX. We should decide both at the same time.
It could be changed. That is breaking the API, so perhaps not. Are you thinking of getting rid of include and lib on Linux and macOS? I like minimizing the cross-platform differences.