Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of Dev2021-3-4

Timestamp:

Mar 4, 2021, 3:17:32 PM (5 years ago)

Author:

Tom Goddard

Comment:

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Dev2021-3-4

@@ -28 +28 @@
     - This avoids trouble that the Qt shim is a prereq, not a bundle or PyPi package so can't directly put a dependency on it.
     - Could make Qt shim a bundle that installs in site-packages/Qt instead of site-packages/chimerax/Qt but bundle name would need to be ChimeraX-Qt.
+  - Pip dependency resolver limitations
+    - Current pip resolver will upgrade packages that break other already installed packages, and then warn after that it broke them.
+    - This could affect us if we increase bundle major version (e.g. atomic_lib) that several other bundles depend on.
+  - Distribution bloat
+    - Mac installed app size is 1.2 Gbytes
+    - Has large Python modules like pydicom that almost no users use.
+    - How do we reduce size while maintaining convenience for users?
+    - Typing command that requires a bundle currently says to install bundle.  File readers could also do this.
+    - Problem is that large size is contributed by very many packages.   Users will be more annoyed to have to install extras one at a time, so don't want most users to have to do that.
 
 * Chimera