Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Dev2022-8-22

Timestamp:

Aug 22, 2022, 4:37:48 PM (3 years ago)

Author:

Tom Goddard

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Dev2022-8-22

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+= ChimeraX Developer Meeting =
+
+Attendance: Eric, Zach, Tom, Greg
+
+August 22, 2022
+
+= Agenda =
+
+* Remilestone or close 1.5 roadmap tickets
+* Update !PyPi prerequisites
+* Make installing on the Mac more obvious
+  * More download Notes?
+  * README in .dmg?
+* Updating Linux compilers from CentOS7 for ISOLDE
+* Github Actions continuous integration
+* Mac M1 port
+* Put parser fix (#4842) on roadmap?
+* ISOLDE is installing into 1.5 (#7381)
+
+--------------------------
+= Discussion =
+
+* Command-line parser fix plan
+  - Command-line parser crashes on long atom specs and slow
+  - Uses obsolote parser package grako
+  - Eric proposes someone research how to fix it for ChimeraX 1.5 and actually fix it for 1.6
+  - Greg mentions Python 3.10 and 3.11 use new PEG parser that might be usable.
+  - Greg mentions that successor to grako should be reevaluated.
+  - Greg or Eric are most likely candidates for doing this.  Did not decide who.
+
+* Mac dmg installation arrow graphic
+  - Eric asks if the Mac distribution DMG now shows an arrow suggesting dragging to the Applications folder.
+  - Zach says he tried it but has not committed anything yet.
+
+* Universal Mac builds
+  - Next step on Mac M1 native build is to make a universal build nightly.  Tom will probably do it, or Zach.
+
+* Mac app notarization
+  - Tom increased notarization retries from 2 to 5 ten days ago and so far no notarization failures.
+  - Notarization failures reported online to be caused by firewalls blocking Apple's signed timestamp server.
+
+* SSD drive for plato
+  - Tom says SSD drive makes AlphaFold database 100 times faster than beegfs on plato.
+  - May want to get SSD local drives for plato nodes.  Still evaluating if it is worth the trouble.
+
+* DICOM
+  - Zach refactored DICOM code to create model hierarchy in clearer way.
+
+--------------------------
+= Action Items =
+  - Update Linux base system from CentOS 7 to Debian 10 or equivalent. Greg
+  - Provide Singularity image of compiler environment.  Greg
+  - Present github continuous integration tutorial.  Zach
+
+== General ==
+
+== ChimeraX ==
+=== General ===
+
+=== Build System ===
+1) Supporting IDEs
+  - may only need editable installs (will require workaround as namespace packages cannot be installed in this mode automatically)
+  - editable installs should also let us call ChimeraX with Python for rapid iteration and the C launcher for detailed crash info
+  - Zach mentioned PyCharm, LSP (Language Server Protocol), XCode
+  - Greg mentioned Visual Studio 
+
+2) API for getting C headers: get_include (see: numpy.get_include)
+  - {{{native-packaging}}} moves bundle header and source files to {{{bundle/src/include/module}}} \
+  - maybe just use header files?
+
+3) API for getting library directories: get_libdir
+
+4) macOS compiler call in Makefiles
+
+=== Infrastructure ===
+1) Beta releases on Toolshed
+
+2) Decoupling core bundle version number from the ChimeraX release number
+
+3) Prereq audit after 27 June 
+
+4) arm64 port
+
+== Chimera ==
+1) Back up the build machine to a solid state drive