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