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From:
Klemens Nanni <kn@openbsd.org>
Subject:
Re: remove net/mininet ?
To:
Daniel Dickman <didickman@gmail.com>
Cc:
ports <ports@openbsd.org>, Ayaka Koshibe <akoshibe@gmail.com>, akoshibe@openbsd.org
Date:
Sun, 26 Oct 2025 13:14:54 +0000

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03.10.2025 20:35, Daniel Dickman пишет:
> 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.

No response so far.

Time to remove it until someone does the work of updating it?

> 
> 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.