the future of port:audacity

[Clemens Lang]

Hi again,

On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 07:43:43PM +0100, Clemens Lang wrote:
 
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 01:53:20PM -0500, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate via macports-users wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> We should probably consider moving to Tenacity, as upstream Audacity has
> recently taken a few decisions that are questionable.
> 
> See [1] for more details on this and the current Tenacity source code.
> Ideally, we'd add a new tenacity port and possibly mark audacity as
> replaced_by tenacity, or at least add a note about this.
> 
>   [1]: https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity/src/branch/main/README.md#user-content-motivation

Actually re-reading some of the upstream tickets referenced there, the
audacity developers seem to have taken the feedback they received on
these changes seriously, so maybe the situation isn't as bad as I made
it out to be.

Something to be aware of regardless, but please do check upstream
sources and come to your own conclusions.

-- 
Clemens