= ChimeraX Developer Meeting =

Attendance: Tom, Greg, Zach, Eric, Piet

August 26, 2024

= Agenda =

* Work in progress reports
* Develop ChimeraX 1.9 road map
* Progress updating prereqs
* 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 =

* Django Toolshed error logging
  - Greg will have them save to a file.
  - Currently only get emailed to Greg.

* Toolshed Cytoscape updates
  - Greg is trying to make sure it is easy to compare our toolshed branch to Cytoscape's.

* Linux ChimeraX build error, patchelf
  - Greg has applied some fixes but they have not taken.
  - Starts with complete Rocky 8 build.
  - Then for each Linux platform builds all prereqs and installs those in Rocky 8 build.
  - To build flatpak need to move previously built wheels.
  - Ubuntu 20.04 and flatpak distributions not building.
  - Eric will make ticket for Greg to work on fix.

* !AmberTools packaging for !PyPi ChimeraX
  - Could move ambertools binaries into current amber_info bundle so it doesn't use appdirs to find ambertools.
  - Original problem is that amber_info import in the !PyPi package causes an error due to top-level use of appdirs.
  - Other solutions could be to remove appdirs use on amber_info import  or remove amber_info import.

* Github continuous builds
  - Zach would like to get Github actions ChimeraX Windows, Mac builds as tech previews on download page.
  - Greg explained how JSON file controls whether download page shows tech previews.
  - Interested in Windows testing because it is using mingw.
  - Mac and Windows need notarization.
  - Some Linux, Ubuntu 20, 22, Rocky 8.

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= Action Items =