[Halld-offline] Running GlueX software in a container

[Sean Dobbs]

Hi Offliners,

There was some interest expressed in the Software meeting today in
making the standard environment the containerized one at some point
going forward.

I saw that this HOWTO exists:
https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/HOWTO_Run_Gluex_Software_with_GCC_8_in_a_CentOS_7_Container

Is this still the right way to go about using gcc 8 in a container at JLab?

It seems like this page gives a straightforward set of instructions
that we could build around to give a solution that works for everyone
at the lab, and extend for people working on their own machines.  And
we can always add more HOWTOs for those mavericks who want to set up
things themselves (I think some of these exist as well).


A side note: some of these dependencies will hit offsite users less
once we have the capability of performing reduced builds aimed at
amplitude analysis or ROOT tree analysis, since that is what is mostly
done at those locations anyway.

Cheers,
Sean