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 <hanc...@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 It's also outdated.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. >