Attendees

Elaine, Eric, Conrad, Greg, TomG, TomF

Agenda

• Updates [All]
• error handling (catching C++ exceptions)
• ​2015 Map Challenge
• wx vs. qt5, round N
• help
• toolshed web site
• motion/movie/animation commands
  • currently listed under "Eventually" in the EarlyReleaseRequirements and Needed Command Functionality

Discussion

• Updates
  • TomG got OSMESA for Linux to work and is in the distribution
    • Will test with lots of mmCIF files to check for failures, memory leaks, etc.
  • Greg made "make DEBUG=1 install" compile and install a debug version
    • C++ compiled with -g
    • If done at top level, Python will be compiled as debug version (object tracing, memory allocation checks, etc.)
  • Eric made status line updates immediate instead of waiting until later
  • Eric cleaned up pseudobonds (consistent API, naming)
• error handling (catching C++ exceptions)
  • Using ctype "pydll" instead of "cdll" speeds up the code by ~6%
  • Hand-coding try/catch in C-linkage wrapper does not add overhead
• ​2015 Map Challenge
  • Wait and see
• wx vs. qt5, round N
• Meeting adjourned
• help
• toolshed web site

Action Items

• Greg will commit exception-catching mechanism to repository
• Conrad will try to get the Riverbank Commercial License