the future of port:audacity

[Peter Hancock]

On 10/02/2023 23:04, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> port:audacity is (apparently) in a state of limbo currently, with a number of build failure reports. It's also outdated.
> 

That's sad, for me. I use it under Catalina, on a machine bought (mostly) for Work.
I worry about it whether it'll work on whatever computer I buy next.

My 2 cents is I care more that it to work on newer Macs.
Else I'd have to use some other (less attractive, more expensive) audio software or OS.

Thank you for looking after Macports audacity so far!

P

> A few observations:
> - the official build still runs on OS X 10.9 and it looks I can get it to build there too
> - older OS versions are out of luck, while I think the current Audacity version (3.0.1.x) still supports 10.7 (it builds targeting that OS).
> - I'm currently doing test builds against wxWidgets 3.1.3.x, the very latest intermediate version that still supports 10.9 . The current port:wxWidgets-3.2 requires 10.11 and I haven't checked yet if Audacity will build against port:wxWidgets-3.0
> - it appears that building the current port:audacity with the embedded special wxWidgets version fails on the latest OSes or ARM hardware.
> 
> This raises 2 questions:
> - do we introduce an additional legacy port (3.0.1) for older OS users who'd still like to be able to run an Audacity version with the new file format?
> - do we drop the wxWidget variants and dependency and just make Audacity build its own fixed & customised version of that middleware?
> 
> I don't plan on remaining port maintainer but I do use Audacity and thus have some interest in leaving this port in as best a state as possible.