ChimeraX Developer Meeting

Attendance: Zach, Greg, Piet, Tom, Eric

March 3, 2025

Agenda

• Chimera webpush fails, Directory not empty, "/usr/local/sbin/webpush", line 234, shutil.rmtree(dstOld)"
• Toolshed cache never initialized #16830
• Make Chimera release (fix broken PDB fetch)
• Should build test failures fail the build?
• ViewDockX port to Qt
• 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

• Should test suite failure block daily builds?
  • Zach will change build scripts so test failures allow daily build to be distributed and nightly email will note test suite failures for investigation.
  • Eric suggests no. In the past test suite failures did not prevent daily build going to web site.
  • In almost all cases the a test suite failure has minimal to no impact on the daily build.
  • Rejecting daily builds prevents new features and fixes from being used.

• Chimera webpush failing
  • Fails in Python shutil.rmtree().
  • Looked at code, not clear how a directory being deleted ends up not empty.
  • Greg added code to just warn if the old directory delete fails since it is not necessary that the old directory is deleted.

• Chimera release
  • Greg will make release by this Thursday.

• Toolshed cache initialization hangs
  • Greg will look at this.
  • Eric says the cache initialization is seen in many bug reports apparently because it hangs or takes a long time and then times out.

• ViewDockX port HTML to Qt
  • Piet is working on Qt interface for viewdock.
  • Piet submitted an initial pull request for viewdockx.
  • Is a viewdockx command needed? Eric says no.
  • To start viewdock have a show_tool() function in the bundle.
  • Copyright notices should go on code files.

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Action Items