Attendees

Elaine, Eric, Greg, TomF, TomG, Conrad

Agenda

• Review action items from last meeting
• Chimera 1.11 Release
• Windows ChimeraX builds
• PyQt status
  • nuke wx?
  • License text/file in source files
• Command/help URLs
  • change help: scheme to cxhelp:
  • QDesktopServices workaround
    • Doesn't allow separate handling by log/help viewer
  • Use http: instead of cxcmd/cxhelp:
• Code signing for Windows
• Faster session saves
  • pickle vs. msgpack
  • avoid massive data copy
• Leaner core and/or mandatory tools

Discussion

• Chimera 1.11 Release
  • Reverted to Tk 8.6.1- (same as Chimera 1.10.2) and fixed menu problem on Mac
  • Wait another two weeks before finalizing
• Windows ChimeraX builds
  • Greg has made it work
  • Uses Qt installer and PyQt "licensed wheel" builder to get Qt in ChimeraX.app
  • Qt will eventually be part of the build environment rather than ChimeraX prereq
    • Need to address problems currently fixed by patching
• PyQt status
  • Version 5.6.1 (released a few days ago) needs to be tested
  • PyQt is being built as commercial version, not GPL
  • We can start distributing Qt version after we get license text in place
  • We cannot nuke wx until Qt version is available
  • Need download web interface that asks for agreement to license
• Command/help URLs
  • We will switch to using http for executing commands and showing help
    • ​http://chimerax.rbvi.ucsf.edu/exec/...
    • ​http://chimerax.rbvi.ucsf.edu/help/...
  • Registering for schemes (cxcmd, cxhelp) may be added later for convenience after security concerns are addressed

Outstanding Action Items

• TomF will get answers for ChimeraX license
• Eric will create ticket for converting from cxcmd: to http: scheme in web viewer
• Greg will find out whether we can get code signing certificate with our unit name in it
• Greg will find out from IT whether they are willing to sign ChimeraX with their new EV cert