\documentstyle[a4,times]{article} % pre-amble to re-set sytle options \headheight 0mm % No header text \headsep 0mm % No distance between header and body of text \parindent 0mm % No paragraph indentation \parskip 5mm % Size of gap between paragraphs \addtolength{\textheight}{.5in} % end of pre-amble \begin{document} \begin{center} \large\bf MINUTES OF THE WORKING GROUP 2 \\MEETING OF CCP4 \\ \large\bf HELD AT BIRKBECK COLLEGE ON 8th OF OCTOBER 1992 \end{center} \begin{tabular}{ll} \it{Present:} & \\ & \\ David Rice (Chairman) & Sheffield University \\ Peter Brick & Imperial College \\ Peter Daly & ESRF Grenoble \\ Eleanor Dodson & York University \\ Cameron Dunn & Bristol University \\ Phil Evans & MRC, Cambridge \\ Sheila Gover & Oxford University \\ Kim Henrick & MRC Cambridge \\ Paul Holden & Bristol University \\ Neil Isaacs & Glasgow University \\ David Love & Daresbury Laboratory \\ Sandra McLaughlin & EMBL Hamburg \\ Jim Raftery & Manchester University \\ Lindsay Sawyer & Edinburgh University \\ Ian Tickle & Birkbeck College \\ Jan Zelinka & York University \\ Wojciech Wolf (Secretary) & Daresbury Laboratory \\ \end{tabular} 1. {\it Minutes of the previous meeting} The minutes of the meeting held on July 6th, 1992 were agreed, with one amendment: Peter Daly stated that, contrary to the minutes no agreement was reached on avoiding ANSI C-specific constructs. The problem relates particularly to VMS users as at present DEC does not supply ANSI C compilers for VMS\@. Peter Artymiuk explained that such a compilers should soon become available on VAXen. 2. {\it Study Weekend 1993} Lindsay reported on the final program of the Study Weekend. Only Dave Smith had not been confirmed as a speaker so far. However most of the speakers had not supplied detailed titles for their presentation. The final program was accepted by the meeting. The maximum number of participants was set at 300. There is no possibility of packing more people into the Lord Daresbury Hotel lecture room. The final selection of the applicants is to be made by Neil and Lindsay in collaboration with the Daresbury Laboratory Conference Office. 3. {\it ESF-NEACBM Working Group 2 meeting in Paris} Sandra reported on the meeting in Paris. She pointed out the increasing number of continental participants taking part in the ESF-NEACBM meetings. Groningen are trying to convert their programs to read MTZ files. Jorge Navaza's AMORE program for molecular relacement is to be made CCP4-compatible (by Eleanor) and added to the suite. Sheila asked about SQUASH\@. Eleanor replied that it is not freely available. It was developed at York by an SERC MSc.\ student, but was later sold to Molecular Structure Corporation. 4. {\it CCP4 Secretary replacement} Wojciech had resigned as CCP4 secretary to take a position in Poland. He complimented the CCP4 community on the atmosphere of the group and thanked them for their collaboration. The meeting thanked him for his work on CCP4's behalf. David Rice reported on discussion with david Blow about a replacement and presented a proposed job description which was discussed. The consensus was that suitable candidates should have a background in protein crystallography, with an interest and strong background in computational techniques. Further input to the procedure could be passed to David Rice or David Blow. 5. {\it Updated program list\/} Following discussion at the Paris meeting, Wojciech presented proposed lists of programs to be `supported', `unsupported' and removed from the distribution. The name of a maintainer/expert is to be associated with each supported program; they will be consulted when problems are reported which can't be sorted out at Daresbury. The lists were run through with a frank exchange of views as to the merits of certain programs and a consensus arrived at of the programs in each category and the support people's names. Wojciech was to amend the lists and circulate them for final comment. Copies of the final versions are attached. 6. {\it Automated installation under Unix\/} David Love described the automated Unix installation procedure for the suite now being distributed. Eleanor reported her experiences with it. Kim pointed out that ``developer's'' compiler switches had been made the default for some systems. This had been done on purpose but had caused serious problems due to compiler bugs and more uninitialised variables in the programs than anticipated. 7. {\it New sub-releases of the suite\/} David also described the release policy which entails `major' version numbers (currently an arbitrary 2.1) with minor version numbers indicating bug fix releases e.g., 2.1.3. These are made available as `patches' to the previous release for convenience and advertised on the e-mail list. Eleanor asked what intervals there should be between releases. The minor releases are made as and when bugs show up which are deemed sufficiently serious to merit them. It was stated that all documentation should be written in Unix `man' format. Phil asked for guidance in doing this and David Love was asked to provide a guide. 8. {\it Possible purchase of a CCP4 workstation for Daresbury\/} David Love described why he felt that a workstation at Daresbury dedicated to CCP4 use rather than parasiting off the experimental group's Iris would help provide better services such as improved network access for developers and users and hosting a less troublesome system for the bulletin board. He presented a costing based on Sun hardware. It was suggested that half the money could be found from CCP4 funds if Daresbury could find the rest, but there was some unhappiness at the suggestion of using Sun hardware rather than Silicon Graphics. 9. {\it Any other business\/} Neil raised the question of support for visitors from CCP4 funds. It was pointed out the funds are stretched but it might be appropriate to support short-term visits aimed specifically at program development if the case arose. 10. {\it Venue and date of the next meeting} The next meeting was set for Thursday Jan. 7th, 1992, at York University, \mbox{11--30 am}. D. Love (Acting secretary) \end{document}