Attendees

• Eric, Greg, TomG, Elaine, Conrad, TomF

Agenda

• Action items
• Chimera
  • 1.13.1 release
  • Unicode BOM PDB files
• ChimeraX
  • distlib vs modern Python packaging
  • Wildcard/regex/case matching in atomspec (Eric)
• ChimeraX 0.8 goals

Discussion

• Chimera 1.13.1
  • Changes include - fixing proline rotamer, align chains, independent rotation in scenes
  • Greg will widen Chimera check-update dialog so dot release link will still be visible
  • Eric fixed PDB reader to handle Unicode byte-order-marker (BOM) at start of file (in both Chimera and ChimeraX)
  • Target release for next week
• ChimeraX
  • Documentation and tutorial strategy
    • Bundle-specific documentation should be placed into docs directory in package
    • Bundle-specific documentation should be kept in bundle
  • distlib vs modern Python packaging
    • Conrad updated the code to use pkg_resources instead of distlib
    • Update all ChimeraX-Core dependencies from 0.7 to 0.8 once we move from distlib to pkg_resources
    • Need code to detect shared libraries/DLLs in bundle to be installed and only install on restart unless not imported yet
  • Move to Python 3.7 after Conrad's toolshed changes are done
    • Update to latest numpy
    • Update to latest msgpack using pip (if possible)
  • Need to move to PyQt5 5.11 (after Python 3.7) to get Vulkan support
    • May also minimize CSS warnings in log
    • Greg will build installers

Action Items

• Conrad will make sure that ChangeLog is up to date
• Greg will widen Chimera check-update dialog so dot release link will still be visible
• Eric and Greg will fix the bad links and contents of the installation instructions
• Greg will build ChimeraX Debian installers
• Conrad and Greg will figure out how to organize documentation so that the primary copy stays in bundles but editing is not too cumbersome
• Conrad will create ticket listing stable APIs