the future of port:audacity

[Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate]

I looked at the Audacity website, https://www.audacityteam.org .  It looks
like Audacity is in robust current maintenance, sources are available, and
legacy and modern Mac OS versions are supported through Ventura and
Intel/M1/M2.  The current release is 3.2.4, almost two years ahead of the
version cited by René.  You said this is in limbo?  What am I missing?


On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 1:03 PM Peter Hancock <hancock at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> 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 It's also outdated.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.
>
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