= ChimeraX Developer Meeting =

Zach, Eric, Tom

Greg on vacation

June 27, 2022

= Agenda =

== General ==

== ChimeraX ==
=== Release Planning ===
1) Greg wants a 1.4.1 release

2) 1.5 roadmap

=== Bugs ===
1) Due asynchronous startup toolshed check, can't issue "toolshed" commands immediately after ChimeraX installation.

=== Build System ===
1) Supporting IDEs
  - may only need editable installs (will require workaround as namespace packages cannot be installed in this mode automatically)
  - editable installs should also let us call ChimeraX with Python for rapid iteration and the C launcher for detailed crash info
  - Zach mentioned PyCharm, LSP (Language Server Protocol), XCode
  - Greg mentioned Visual Studio 

2) API for getting C headers: get_include (see: numpy.get_include)
  - {{{native-packaging}}} moves bundle header and source files to {{{bundle/src/include/module}}} \
  - maybe just use header files?

3) API for getting library directories: get_libdir

4) macOS compiler call in Makefiles

=== Infrastructure ===
1) Beta releases on Toolshed

2) Decoupling core bundle version number from the ChimeraX release number

3) Prereq audit after 27 June 

4) arm64 port
  - Tom suggests zipping x86_64 ChimeraX and arm64 ChimeraX together
  - How best to backport M1 support from native-packaging to 1.4 release branch

5) Regular packages on the toolshed
  - Tom wonders if the functionality of python-gdcm is worth its weight
  - Zach thinks we should leverage our plugin architecture to let users install only the bundles they need

== Chimera ==
1) Back up the build machine to a solid state drive

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= Discussion =

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= Action Items =
  - Present github continuous integration tutorial.  Zach
  - Remove pkg-config prereq if it is not being used for builds. Tom