Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of Dev2022-3-24

Timestamp:

Mar 24, 2022, 4:33:35 PM (4 years ago)

Author:

Tom Goddard

Comment:

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Dev2022-3-24

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 = Attendees =
 
-Eric, Greg, Zach, TomG, Scooter
+Eric, Greg, Zach, TomG
 
 On-site in N453.
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 = Discussion =
 
+* Native Mac M1 ChimeraX port
+  - Intel Ambertools works with M1 ChimeraX since it is emulated.  TomG tested it.
+  - OpenMM 7.7.0 has conda-forge Mac arm64 build, tested and included in M1 ChimeraX by TomG.
+  - Three remaining libraries not ported PyTables, imagecodecs, netcdf4
+  - All 3 of these unported libraries are on conda-forge for mac arm64
+
+* Qt 6 for ChimeraX 1.4 release
+  - Qt 5 on only Linux and Qt 6 on other platforms for ChimeraX 1.4 will mess up developers.
+  - Tony Shaefer, author of SEQCROW ran into a few Qt 5 vs Qt 6 problems.
+  - Various options for how to make separate Qt 5 and Qt 6 releases:
+    * Could simply not have a Qt 5 ChimeraX 1.4 for old Linux.  Optionally Greg might get a Qt 6 release going on CentOS 7 with flatpack or singularity, but otherwise ChimeraX 1.3 would be last release for old Linux.  Need to get Scooter to agree.
+    * Could delay ChimeraX 1.4 release while Greg tries ways to get Qt 6 distributed for old Linux.
+    * Could release ChimeraX 1.4 with Qt 5 on all platforms and same day release ChimeraX 1.5 with Qt 6 on supported platforms (not old Linux).
+    * Eric proposed asking Scooter which option he prefers.
+
+* Windows crash reports
+  - Get many Windows crash reports per day with Open dialog tracebacks.
+  - Some open dialog tracebacks in crash reports are not fatal, and actual crash may not be related.
+  - Eric suggests trying non-native Open dialog with select users who have reported and might reproduce the crash.
+  - TomG made Open dialog clear the crash file when the dialog is closed so non-fatal errors do not confound the crash reports.  Changed added March 23.
+  - TomG trying to make Open dialog modeless so no sub-event loop is run.
+    * Mac puts modeless Open dialog on top of all other applications which is unusable.
+    * On Mac can still use modal Open dialog but with no sub-eventloop using QFileDialog.open() instead of exec().
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