Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of Dev2024-3-4

Timestamp:

Mar 4, 2024, 5:27:29 PM (20 months ago)

Author:

Tom Goddard

Comment:

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Dev2024-3-4

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 = ChimeraX Developer Meeting =
 
-Attendance: Greg, Zach, Tom, Eric
+Attendance: Greg, Tom, Eric
 
 March 4, 2024
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 = Discussion =
 
+* ChimeraX mailing list problems
+  - Elaine's email to mailing list bounced with "reason: 500 Line too long (see RFC5321 4.5.3.1.6)".  Greg thinks this is a bug in the python smtp module breaking and reassembling message lines.
+  - Moderated chimerax-users email message that Eric approved appeared in archive but was not set to mailing list members.  Apparently these message when to mailman/var/queue/shunted due to errors.  Greg unshunted them and they were delivered.
+  - A possible 3rd problem is that mailman "queue runners" die and are not restarted, a bug fixed in the next mailman.  But that newer mailman requires Python 3.9 while plato has Python 3.8.
+
+* ChimeraX bundle builder atomic_lib problems
+  - ChimeraX cannot build atomic_lib a second time on Mac without an explicit "make clean" apparently because libtmpl.a is not "fat".
+  - Eric will make a ticket.
+
+* ChimeraX atomic_lib dependency problem
+  - After updating the atomic_lib version number trying to rebuild the 7 dependent bundles (atomic, mmcif, pdb, ...) fails with various dependency errors.
+  - It seems the only fix is to rebuild all of ChimeraX.
+  - Eric will make a ticket.
+
+* Cython deprecates "IF" macro
+  - ChimeraX atomic cymol.pyx cython code uses the "IF" macro to handle Windows pointers needing long long integer while unix needing long.
+  - Cython has deprecated "IF" with no equivalent replacement.
+  - Eric may try "sed" to patch the cymol.pyx code at build time.
 
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