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