Attendees

Eric, Greg, Zach, TomG, Tristan

On-site in N453.

Agenda

• ChimeraX
  • Review ChimeraX 1.4 tickets.
  • Make ChimeraX 1.4 release candidate now?
  • Are Windows open dialog crashes fixed?
  • Upgrade Trac to mysql for better reliability.
  • Is Windows crash reporting ever useful? Should we disable it? Will Qt 6.2 fix spurious file dialog errors?
  • Should we remove pywin32 (20 MBytes) and wmi used only to report computer model in bug reporter on Windows? Ticket #5528
  • Task termination at app quit
  • Rename ChimeraX.exe on Windows?
  • Should we go to Python 3.10 in 1.5?
  • Should we decouple the core bundle version number from the ChimeraX release version?

• Chimera
  • Switch Chimera daily builds from Windows 7 to Windows 10

• Action items

Discussion

• ISOLDE
  • Tristan is rewriting ISOLDE gui, mostly cleaning up internals, will take several weeks more.
  • ISOLDE FFT code is not available for Mac M1. Tristan will look for alternative FFT.

• Mac M1 port
  • All prereqs now install for M1 and work
  • Zach will try to make universal intel/arm64 build
  • Mac Mini M1 build machine is euclid.cgl.ucsf.edu
  • Won't release M1 port with 1.4, needs 4-6 weeks testing by users first
  • Plugins like ISOLDE that don't have arm64 version will need to run Intel
  • How will user tell ChimeraX to start in Intel emulation on M1 Mac? Maybe they are warned during Toolshed install and told how to change the macOS setting (Get Info / Use Rosetta emulation) for ChimeraX app.

• ChimeraX 1.4 release
  • Branch was made last night
  • Release candidates will start tonight
  • Need to make release candidates not build CentOS 7, Ubuntu 16 and 18 versions
  • Went through all 1.4 milestone tickets
    • Greg will continue to work on several that are not show-stoppers

Action Items

• Update ChimeraX to Qt 6.3.0. Greg
• Present github continuous integration tutorial. Zach
• Remove pkg-config prereq if it is not being used for builds. Tom