[LEDE-DEV] iperf unmaintained

[John Crispin]

On 10/05/2016 15:35, Bert Vermeulen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> The iperf package appears to be unmaintained, the maintainers directing
> people to iperf3 instead (see https://sourceforge.net/projects/iperf/).
> 
> There is a fork of the original iperf package that's seeing some
> maintenance, named iperf2: https://sourceforge.net/projects/iperf2/
> 
> However iperf3 is in LEDE as well, and works perfectly fine. It is a
> full code rewrite of iperf, and appears to be (mostly?) cmdline-compatible.
> 
> I see no reason to keep both: iperf3 is the better project here.
> 
> Does anyone have a compelling reason to keep iperf around? This would
> mean switching to the iperf2 project -- either way the original needs to
> go.
> 
> 


i would vote to drop iperf and ask people to use iperf3

	John