VFX Platform considerations (glibc 2.28 vs 2.29)

[boberfly]

Hey all, has there been a consideration of supporting VFX Platform? https://vfxplatform.com/ or ASWF docker: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/aswf-docker

Seeing as though this is more of a Linux Foundation set-up now, it seems to be a strange oversight. All of the third-party dependencies are built against Ubuntu 20.04 which is glibc 2.29 but VFX plartform (Rocky Linux 8) is glibc 2.28 so it is a non-start to try and even attempt to build against the pre-compiled third-party libraries.

I've tried building these under the aswf-docker image via distrobox and attempted to build with 3p-package-source and 3p-package-scripts with some success. I needed to comment out all the S3 hook-checks so I can run build_all_packages.sh (perhaps a version of this script that can run locally could be a good addition for cases that I'm experiencing).

Unfortunately I am running into some of the dependencies invoking docker - is it possible to build these without docker or would this require more script modifications?

Kind regards