ChimeraX Developer Meeting

Zach, Eric, Tom

Greg on vacation

June 27, 2022

Agenda

General

ChimeraX

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 files to bundle/src/include/module

3) API for getting library directories: get_libdir

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

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