Attendees

• Eric, TomG, Greg

Agenda

• Action items
• ChimeraX
  • Should our bundles list a dependency on the Qt shim module?
  • Should we remove the HTML tool tutorial and promote only Qt GUIs?
  • ChimeraX release date, and what needs to be done.
  • Toolshed tickets
• Chimera

Discussion

• ChimeraX
  • next release 1.2
    • early April
    • Might release 1.2 without release candidate to avoid toolshed dependencies on 1.2 not working with 1.2rc
    • Update to 1.2.1 if any major bugs found
    • Don't advertise 1.2 until a few weeks later
  • Toolshed fixes for 1.2
    • Check if session restore toolshed pickle error can be debugged. May be very old (0.5) ChimeraX session.
    • Add menu to updates tool to choose update frequency
    • Check all current toolshed bundles that will install in 1.2 to see if menu entry or command raises error. If so add dependency core < 1.2.
  • Qt shim dependency
    • Bundles that use Qt should list dependency on ChimeraX UI module.
    • 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

Action Items

• Add check frequency menu to Toolshed updates tool - Greg
• Check that all Toolshed bundles that install in 1.2 actually start -- add core<1.2 dependency to those that fail - Greg
• Add to bundle developer example explanation of need for ChimeraX-UI dependency - Eric
• Make ticket for bond orders - Eric