ChimeraX Developer Meeting

Attendance: Eric, Zach, Tom, Greg

August 1, 2022

Agenda

• Remilestone or close 1.5 roadmap tickets
• Update PyPi prerequisites
• Make installing on the Mac more obvious
  • More download Notes?
  • README in .dmg?
• Updating Linux compilers from CentOS7 for ISOLDE
• Github Actions continuous integration
• Mac M1 port

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Discussion

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Action Items

• Update Linux base system from CentOS 7 to Debian 10 or equivalent. Greg
• Provide Singularity image of compiler environment. Greg
• Present github continuous integration tutorial. Zach

General

ChimeraX

General

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

Chimera

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