Is Schedulix available as compiled binaries?

[Tom Bullers]

Hi All,

   I am hoping to perform a test installation of schedulix on a Debian or Ubuntu server. In your installation docs you mention a schedulix tarball that contains the schedulix binaries.

3. Unpack the software
Unpack the tar archive in the schedulix home directory. For instance:
$ tar xvzf schedulix-2.11.tgz
Create a symbolic link:

I was not able to find schedulix-2.11.tgz on the downloads page or in the git repo.

Are the binaries only available as Red Hat rpms? Is it necessary to compile the source to produce binaries for other distros?

Thanks,

-tom

[Ronald Jeninga]

Hi Tom,

currently a lot is going on. Unfortunately most of that is pretty invisible from the outside.

Red Hat now has basically 3 relevant releases (8, 9 and 10) and we also have a number of releases and new developments (2.9, 2.10, 2.11 + new GUI, current development + new GUI).

This already gives 9 combinations. But things get worse if I look at Python, Java and libc.

RHEL 8 still supports Java 8. On RHEL 9 the lowest supported Java release is (I think) Java 11 and on RHEL 10 it is yet another Java release.

On RHEL8 there's still a Python2 available, not so on RHEL 9 and 10. Hence, on RHEL 8 I need to consider to support a Zope2 Installation, which doesn't make sense on the newer RHEL releases.

I also found out that I need to be careful with respect to the glibc release. It is not so that I can just compile the C sources on my development machine and send them someone.

I didn't yet find out how strict this dependency is.

The above should illustrate somewhat why I can't offer binaries for all distros. There are simply too many of them.

If you happen to like building Debian packages, we can setup a cooperation. I'll do the RH and you could do the Debian packages.

OK, I'll stop crying now.

I'll build you a tgz file and post the download link here.

But given the previous, I'd appreciate it if you could specify the Java release and glibc release you will be using.

I'll then try to find a build environment that suits your specification.

Best regards,

Ronald