ChimeraX Developer Meeting

Attendance: Eric, Zach, Tom, Greg

September 19, 2022

Agenda

• 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

• mmCIF writing
  • Greg will add sequence to mmCIF output
  • Greg will add beta sheet info to mmcif output

• Build failures
  • Zach working on fixing Linux and Windows daily builds

• Shell problems
  • Shell is giving spurious error message and sending stuff to Log panel.
  • Eric will look at it.

• Chimera Mac builds on essex2
  • Eric working on fortran compile of ambertools

• Ambertools
  • Greg asks if Eric will build latest Ambertools for ChimeraX.
  • Uses new cmake build system. Will figure it out some day.

• October 3 code freeze
  • All agreed we can probably branch on this date.
  • Will confirm at our Monday meeting on this day that branch can be made.
  • Need to decide if macOS 10.14 will be dropped -- does not support better lzma dmg compression (ticket #7633)
  • Need mac universal build tech preview soon.

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Action Items

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