Re: [Audacity-devel] LV2 Support?

[Richard A. <ri...@au...>]

On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 15:10 -0800, Eric Hedekar wrote:
> I'm just curious if LV2 plugin support code is still part of Audacity.
> I see from this page:
> http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=LV2_Support that it was
> added back in 2008, but I'm curious if that has been abandoned,
> removed, or otherwise disabled from the releases?  I notice no check
> for lv2 it in the output of ./configure

It's disabled because although the LV2 plug-in interface is cross
platform, the library stack used by the Google Summer of Code student to
add support to Audacity is written in C99. As Microsoft's compilers for
windows don't support C99 as a language, this means the library stack
won't compile.

As the student concerned vanished at the end of GSoC, and the majority
of our developers are on Windows, no-one has had the enthusiasim to pick
it up, make it work (because there were some significant crash bugs
encountered with it built in) and in particular try and make it work on
Windows. We took a decision at that point it would be disabled it was
still basically alpha quality and would be disabled even in beta
releases unless and until someone did some significant work on it.

None of the code has been deleted, you could probably still re-enable
the feature without too much difficulty, although some other areas will
have changed and now won't compile correctly I'm sure. The configure
check is still there, just commented out, so you would need to edit the
files and run autoconf to get the configure option back.

Richard