= ChimeraX Developer Meeting =

Attendance: Zach, Greg, Piet, Tom, Eric

February 24, 2025

= Agenda =

* Toolshed EMAlign wheel file has extra suffix, Yuval Abeles
* Chimera release (PDB web site change)
* Should scenes use unique object ids like session saving?
* Where should code live that saves scene atomic structure attributes?
* Should build test failures fail the build?
* /usr/local/projects/chimerax/builds cleanup
* ViewDockX port to Qt
* Qt update to 6.8.2 hoping it fixes Mac multiple display crashes
* Work in progress reports
* Make Chimera end-of-life bug report and registration changes.
* Back up the Chimera build machine to a solid state drive, Windows 7.

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= Discussion =

* EMAlign toolshed problem
  - Wheel unusable because Toolshed added a suffix to the wheel file when two submissions with the same version number were made.
  - Greg will look into it.
  - Developer Yuval will be asked to submit with a higher version number to fix the problem for now.

* Chimera release to fix PDB fetch
  - Eric will add to release notes PDB fetch issue
  - Greg will make Chimera release, hopefully by Thursday.

* Scenes pull request
  - Discussed whether scene saving needs unique ids.  For now let's try without that.
  - Code to save atomic structures belongs with Structure class, not in Collections.
  - View scene save and restore should not make new instances of Lighting, Material, Camera... and those objects should restore their state, avoid having View save grandchild state.
  - Eric or Zach will accept Piet's pull request.
  - Piet will make a new pull request to fix the above problems.

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= Action Items =