Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of Dev2022-6-27

Timestamp:

Jun 27, 2022, 3:34:22 PM (3 years ago)

Author:

Tom Goddard

Comment:

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Dev2022-6-27

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 = Discussion =
 
+* python-gdcm
+  - The python-gdcm !PyPi package allows ChimeraX to read 16-bit lossless jpeg dicom data, ticket #1745
+  - Should we put it into ChimeraX distributions, or on Toolshed, or leave it out?
+  - We know of only one case where someone tried to open this format 3 years ago (Meghan McCarthy).
+  - The python-gdcm package is pretty large, 27 Mbytes compressed on Windows, making it more than 10% of our Windows ChimeraX size.
+  - We could put python-gdcm on Toolshed.  This is done for the realsense module to avoid increasing distribution size for a very rare feature.
+  - Decided to just leave it out of distribution and not on Toolshed until a user expresses a need for it.
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+* Pip install command for ChimeraX
+  - Would be useful for ChimeraX plugin developers to be able to pip install packages the need with a simple ChimeraX command., ticket #4762
+  - Unfortunately the standard python pip module does not have a public API.
+  - Could use subprocess ("python -m pip install --user ...") to install via a ChimeraX command.
+  - There is a PyPi module pip-install (maybe others too) that provide a pip API that could be used.
+  - Would be 
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