ChimeraX Developer Meeting

Attendance: Greg, Zach, Tom, Eric

June 10, 2024

Agenda

• Make ChimeraX 1.8 release today?
• Fix make clean. Ticket #15334
• Work in progress reports
• Make Chimera end-of-life bug report and registration changes for 1.18 release in Spring 2024.
• Back up the Chimera build machine to a solid state drive, Windows 7.
• ChimeraX Ideas milestone clean-up.

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Discussion

• ChimeraX 1.8 release
  • Plan to release on Thursday if nothing new comes up.
  • Eric will put in StructureSeq fix today.

• Make clean needs ChimeraX build to exist
  • Makefile.bundle has error code if the built Python does not exist, but that is actually not needed by the clean target.
  • Greg will fix

• pip being used in Makefile.bundle
  • Makefile needs to use our build Python not the system Python.
  • Zach will fix it.

• Dark mode
  • Greg trying ChimeraX in Qt 6.7 dark mode.
  • PyQt 6.7.1 is missing QWebEngineCore library, so waiting for 6.7.2 which is not yet out.

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Action Items

• Zach remove direct use of pip in Makefile.bundle. Use something like $(PYTHON) -m pip so the correct Python is used.