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From:
Volker Schlecht <openbsd-ports@schlecht.dev>
Subject:
Proposal to remove: benchmarks/tsung
To:
Greg Steuck <gnezdo@openbsd.org>
Cc:
ports <ports@openbsd.org>
Date:
Mon, 2 Jun 2025 18:05:08 +0200

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Thanks for the feedback! With that I would like to propose the following:

Unless anyone speaks up in the next 2 weeks, I propose to delete benchmarks/tsung.
In case anyone still wants to keep the port, I'll apply my originally proposed
patches.

On 2025-06-01 22:48, Greg Steuck wrote:
>Volker Schlecht <openbsd-ports@schlecht.dev> writes:
>
>> benchmarks/tsung currently suffers from a number of compilation
>> and runtime errors when compiling/running on OTP versions > 25
>>
>> All that is needed to fix that, has been documented in a number
>> of issues, and pull requests, but it appears that there isn't a
>> lot of drive left in the project (and possibly its user base)
>> anymore.
>>
>> I've applied the already proposed changes and filled the gaps
>> with a few patches of my own, and the result passes tests (save
>> one test, which has always been failing on OpenBSD).
>>
>> While at first glance it appears the some of the patches disable
>> SSL verification, those are just reinstating the behavior that
>> tsung always had: Erlang changed the default behavior for SSL
>> connections from not-verifying to verifying, and tsung leans on the
>> old default.
>>
>> Not nice, but also nothing new ... changing it without breaking
>> existing setups is beyond the length I want to invest in this
>> port :-)
>>
>> With these changes, we could move tsung to use MODERL_DEFAULT_VERSION
>> and get rid of erlang/25 and erlang/26 eventually.
>>
>> Thoughts? Opinions?
>
>I'm OK with you pushing this into our tree as you still did the work.
>I'm also OK with deleting this port entirely.
>
>Thanks
>Greg
>