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From:
Daniel Dickman <didickman@gmail.com>
Subject:
Re: remove net/mininet ?
To:
Klemens Nanni <kn@openbsd.org>
Cc:
ports <ports@openbsd.org>, Ayaka Koshibe <akoshibe@gmail.com>, akoshibe@openbsd.org
Date:
Fri, 3 Oct 2025 13:35:54 -0400

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Our version is a local fork of upstream mininet 2.2.2 which seems to have 
been done to add OpenBSD support back in 2017.

Upstream there's mininet 2.3.0 which added Python 3 support although I 
haven't looked into what would be involved to migrate the local openbsd 
changes to the newer mininet version.

There's also upstead 2.3.1b4 but then the project looks like it stalled in 
2023.

I don't object to removing it if no one wants to step up to maintain it, 
but just pointing out that there is a chance of getting this one to Python 
3 for anyone with an interest.

I'd vote to remove after release unless Ayake (as maintainer) has a 
different view.

On Fri, 3 Oct 2025, Klemens Nanni wrote:

> No activity since 2018, uses python 2, wants switch(4) (removed in 2021)
> and "Open vSwitch" programs we don't have.
> 
> I ran `nm' for an example as per README.md, but it did seemingly nothing
> except destroying (on ^C) my pair(4) interfaces used with gelatod(8).
> 
> To be fair, that file says it is a heavy WIP fork for Free/OpenBSD that
> might touch unrelated stuff, but perhaps this whole project halted and
> its time to drop the experimental port?
> 
> FreeBSD does not have it, either.
> 
>