Re: [PATCH] Add iPerf

[Marius Bakke]

Benz Schenk <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, 18 Oct 2016 22:37:40 +0100
> Marius Bakke <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Benz Schenk <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > This is my first patch, it's really straight-forward.
>> > But I'm not quite sure about the naming because there's iperf, iperf2
>> > and iperf3 which are different projects. The original iperf is
>> > abandoned and iperf2 is backwards compatible and still gets bug fixes
>> > and iperf3, which this patch is for, is in active development and adds a
>> > lot of new features but also lacks some of the options of previous
>> > versions. Thus it's often referred to as iperf3, which is also the name
>> > of the binary, so I'm not sure wheter the package should better be
>> > called iperf3 or iperf.  
>> 
>> Hi Benz,
>> 
>> Thanks for this patch! I think naming it "iperf" is fine, even though
>> the binary and manual is called iperf3. If we need iperf2 later it can
>> be packaged as "address@hidden".
>> 
>> I'm not sure about the home page: the manual and github page both list
>> http://software.es.net/iperf/ as the home. What is the relation between
>> iperf.fr and this project? Should we not go with the official source?
>> 
>> Other than that I'd like to make the following modifications. This can
>> be done before pushing, no need to send an updated patch:
>> 
>> * Change synopsis to "TCP, UDP and SCTP bandwidth measurement tool".
>> * Update license to match what's in the LICENSE file.
>> * Fix minor typos in the description (bandwith->bandwidth).
>> * Change commit message to match our current convention.
>> * Download the tarball from http://downloads.es.net/pub/iperf/
>> 
>> Are you okay with these changes (including the home page)?
>> 
>> Thanks again, and welcome! :)
>
> Sure thing, I just need the software for uni and got this homepage from
> my advisor.

Thanks for clarifying. I've tested this and pushed it with the mentioned
changes as b747718e230eba267ae158d03d506527bfe1a67a !