= ChimeraX Developer Meeting =

Attendance: Greg, Zach, Tom, Eric

July 15, 2024

= Agenda =

* MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET for bundle builder cythonize() to access any_cast
* Work in progress reports
* Chimera 1.18 release.
* Make Chimera end-of-life bug report and registration changes.
* Back up the Chimera build machine to a solid state drive, Windows 7.
* ChimeraX Ideas milestone clean-up.


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= Discussion =

* Mac deployment target for cython compiles
  - Eric building C++ 17 parser library.
  - Bundle builder compiles with cython which uses macOS 10.9 as the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET which fails due to missing std::any.
  - Bundle builder should tell cython correct deployment target by setting environment variable if not set.
  - Zach will fix.

* Update ChimeraX Windows compiler to C++ 17.
  - Greg says we will want to update Microsoft Windows compiler to support C++ 17.
  - We may be using Visual Studio 2013 now.

* Chimera 1.18 release
  - Not yet made.

* Exception info Python C API is deprecated
  - Eric is using this API for atom spec parser.
  - New API is in Python 3.12.
  - Unlikely to be removed for several Python versions.

* Prereq updates
  - Zach updated setuptools and pip due to security issue.
  - Eric update python shell packages
  - Tom will update packages when back next week.

* Zach tasks todo
  - Update sequence databases for blast protein
  - Relaunch redis workers if they die


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= Action Items =

* Greg will make Chimera 1.18 release.