ChimeraX Developer Meeting

Attendance: Eric, Zach, Tom, Greg

October 27, 2022

Agenda

• ChimeraX 1.5 release candidate is out
• Make Chimera release this year?
• Toolshed bundle requirement checking
• Remilestone or close 1.5 roadmap tickets
• Mac universals builds and M1 port
• Discuss possible OpenMM and VR improvements for Tristan and Altos to pursue
• Arrow graphic for Mac dmg file
• Back up the Chimera build machine to a solid state drive, Windows 7?

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Discussion

• 1.5 release
  • Tristan will provide OpenMM built for Linux with Debian 10.
  • Eric will fix a MatchMaker zombie problem.
  • Zach polishing new DICOM gui.
  • pip install ChimeraX command is installing in wrong user directory, Zach looking at it.
  • Installing wiggle PyPi dependencies fails, Greg looking at it.
  • Greg fixed an ubuntu 22 install problem. #7830
  • Tom will check if alphafold database updated to version 4.
  • Discussed all milestoned tickets.

• Small molecule CIF
  • Greg made it warn when no atoms found.

• readthedocs
  • Versioned documentation
  • Currently it is showing extra levels in index, e.g. Python modules
  • class_munger.py seems to be used

• Python 3.11
  • some standard modules moved
  • grako uses old modules and would need patching

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Action Items

• Present github continuous integration tutorial. Zach
• Beta releases on Toolshed - make ticket for this. Greg