[LEDE-DEV] iperf unmaintained

[Felix Fietkau]

On 2016-05-10 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'd suggest switching the project to iperf2, keeping the package name
and dropping the non-multi-threaded variant.

- Felix