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From:
Daniel Dickman <didickman@gmail.com>
Subject:
Re: remove net/mininet ?
To:
Klemens Nanni <kn@openbsd.org>
Cc:
Daniel Dickman <didickman@gmail.com>, ports <ports@openbsd.org>, Ayaka Koshibe <akoshibe@gmail.com>, akoshibe@openbsd.org
Date:
Sun, 26 Oct 2025 15:14:04 -0400

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On Sun, 26 Oct 2025, Klemens Nanni wrote:

> 03.10.2025 20:35, Daniel Dickman ?????:
> > 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?

ok daniel@