== [http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/pett/Mitaine Molecular data issues/decisions] - Eric ==

== Skeleton Framework for Development Experimentation - Greg and Conrad ==

=== Goals ===

- Create a framework (for Mac, Linux and Windows) where developers can test their ideas by actually writing some code and seeing what the results look like
- Provide graphics library API
 - support spheres, cylinders and triangles
- Provide UI toolkit API
 - support !PySide with QT4
- Provide basic application API
 - file type registration
 - command registration
- Provide simple UI
 - display of 3D graphics with virtual sphere manipulation
 - menu bar with "File -> Open" button
 - command line input

=== Results ===

Code, available in svn+ssh://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/usr/local/src/svn/chimera2, works on Mac, Linux and Windows.  Unfortunately, installation of "foreign" software for each platform is quite different.  We are working on a "make" setup similar to what is currently in Chimera so that it will be easier for developers to deploy the code.

=== Next Sprint ===

Possibilities:
- Complete deployment setup
- test alternative GUI toolkits: GTK+, !WxWindows
- More graphics functionality
 - transparency
 - picking
 - shader management
- Python 3.3
 - skiboken vs. swig vs. wrappy3 vs. cython
- Analysis of web application compatibility
 - WSGI with non-system python?