Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of Dev2024-6-24


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Jun 24, 2024, 4:13:09 PM (18 months ago)
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Tom Goddard
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  • Dev2024-6-24

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    1717= Discussion =
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     19* ChimeraX 1.8
     20  - Have seen a few Mac bug reports with no C stack provided by Mac crash reporter.
     21  - Can tweet 1.8 release as it seems it is working fine.
     22
     23* Make distclean
     24  - Greg made "make clean" not remove downloaded third-party packages (from plato archive) so if plato is down we can still build using already downloaded packages.
     25  - Use "make distclean" to remove downloaded packages.
     26
     27* ChimeraX dark mode
     28  - Greg has ChimeraX behaving better in operating system Dark Mode.
     29  - Uses Qt 6.7 for html panels, Log, file history.
     30  - Some icons are hard to see (black on transparent background), and new ones could be made.  Greg will add mechanism to use a dark mode icon if one is available.
     31
     32* Python 3.12 for ChimeraX 1.9?
     33  - Discussed whether to update ChimeraX to Python 3.12.
     34  - Python 3.12 released October 2023 and is now at 3.12.4.
     35  - Greg says Python has 3 years of support where they distribute builds with security fixes.  So 3.11 from October 2022 is supported until October 2025 (3 ChimeraX releases from now).
     36  - After 3 year support Python still includes security fixes for another 3 years but does not provide builds, so you have to build yourself to get those.
     37  - Zach will try a Python 3.12 ChimeraX build to see how many third-party packages cause problems (not yet available for 3.12).
     38
     39* Chimera 1.18 release
     40  - Chimera fails reading AlphaFold 3 mmCIF files because of a "." in some mandatory field (chain id?).
     41  - Greg will make 1.18 release, no candidates, just build and release.
     42
     43* ChimeraX 1.9 roadmap
     44  - Eric suggests we finally fix long atom spec parsing crashes.
     45  - Greg interested in making linux flatpack use system python.
     46
     47* Linux package manager ChimeraX versions
     48  - Greg would like to have ChimeraX distributed through standard Ubuntu package repository.
     49  - Would require agreeing to license in a different way, e.g. on ChimeraX startup.
     50  - Flatpaks also have repository want to update automatically which presents licensing issues.
     51
     52* Scan web logs for ChimeraX use statistics
     53  - Greg suggests we try scanning web logs for statistics on active number of ChimeraX users for future grant applications.
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