== Development Features for Chimera ==

These notes are supplementary material to the official documentation on development for Chimera, including the [http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ Chimera documentation], [http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/framecommand.html commands], [http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ProgrammersGuide/ programmer's guide], and [http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/chimera/wiki/Scripts example scripts].

These notes are compiled from experimental additions to a Chimera installation, based on work with an Ubuntu 10.04 linux distribution.  These notes are not official recommendations, as the solutions given here are not tested on all platforms.  Although an attempt is made to provide clear and complete steps, the notes may skip some steps, such as installation of additional Debian-Ubuntu packages to resolve some dependency issues.  It is recommended that intermediate or advanced linux users and python developers may find these notes useful for using or adding features to Chimera.

 * adding [wiki:ChimeraPyPackages python packages to Chimera]
 * creating a VirtualEnv for Chimera
 * how to configure [wiki:ChimeraEclipse eclipse for Chimera]
 * running [wiki:ChimeraPyDoc pydoc on the Chimera python source code]
 * converting [wiki:ChimeraSrc2html Chimera python code to html]
 * a consistent [wiki:ChimeraPythonStyle python style] (not necessarily a convention)
 * using [wiki:ChimeraWithGit git] with the Chimera subversion repository