**breaking** mini-ndn: re-design

refs: #5062

Everything is now done through examples like Mininet.
bin/minindn no longer provided as a binary installed in the system
bin/minindnedit GUI: will no longer be maintained
Remove cluster edition, will be re-introduced later

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+Release Notes
+=============
+
+Mini-NDN version 0.4.0 (changes since version 0.3.0)
+----------------------------------------------------
+
+Release date: January 10, 2018
+
+**New features**:
+
+-  Use SIGQUIT to quit Mini-NDN, SIGINT to kill programs
+
+-  Use Infoedit to edit NFD and NLSR configuration files
+
+-  Use nlsr.conf installed in the system
+
+-  Provide a Vagrantfile to setup Mini-NDN and NDN
+
+-  Provide option to disable NLSR
+
+-  Provide an option to run NLSR in dry-run mode
+
+-  Add option to specify whether to use TCP or UDP face in nlsr.conf
+
+-  Add option to specify arbitrary arguments to use in experiments
+
+-  Include a single option to install Mini-NDN and all the dependencies
+
+**Bug fixes**:
+
+-  Fix "key does not exist error" after NLSR starts
+
+-  Update install.sh to call ldconfig after installing ChronoSync
+
+-  Add hyperbolic coordinates to default topology
+
+**Misc changes**:
+
+-  Add an experiment to test nlsrc
+
+-  Create faces in NFD for each neighbor in NLSR
+
+-  Update to latest ndn-cxx
+
+-  Use /tmp/minindn folder as default work dir instead of /tmp
+
+Mini-NDN version 0.3.0 (changes since version 0.2.0)
+----------------------------------------------------
+
+Release date: March 3, 2017
+
+**New features**:
+
+-  Mini-NDN cluster edition
+
+-  New experiments for making NLSR testing easier
+
+**Bug fixes**:
+
+-  Set site name correctly
+
+-  Install missing certificates in NLSR security config
+
+-  Fix quitting of NLSR due to key not found error
+
+**Misc changes**:
+
+-  Removed nlsr.conf file, generate it within the code
+
+-  Use argparse instead of deprecated optparse
+
+-  Update security config section for NLSR
+
+-  Change mininet prompt to mini-ndn
+
+-  Set network name at one place
+
+-  Update install.sh script to install openssl
+
+-  Update install.sh script to install cryptopp from package instead of
+   compiling from source
+
+-  Update install.sh to clean build folder every time to get rid of
+   removed files such as old experiments
+
+-  Fix old code - use net.hosts instead of storing hosts in a variable
+
+-  Use nfdc instead of deprecated nfd-status
+
+Mini-NDN version 0.2.0 (changes since version 0.1.1)
+----------------------------------------------------
+
+Release date: August 18, 2016
+
+**New features**:
+
+-  Automatic security configuration for NLSR
+
+-  Use /usr/local/etc/ndn/nfd.conf as default config file for NFD
+
+-  Class to monitor /proc/$PID/stat file for PID
+
+-  Mini-NDN exits gracefully on SIGINT and non-convergence
+
+-  Faster Mini-NDN install script - does not do apt-get update everytime
+
+-  NLSR is launched with explicit config file for easier process
+   identification
+
+-  Add and update more documentation
+
+**Bug fixes**:
+
+-  NFD is killed correctly on exit
+
+-  Best route strategy is set correctly
+
+Mini-NDN version 0.1.1 (changes since version 0.1.0)
+----------------------------------------------------
+
+Release date: November 4, 2015
+
+**New features**:
+
+-  Use nfd.conf.sample from currently installed NFD
+
+-  Add working directory option to allow execution environment outside
+   of /tmp
+
+-  Add results directory option to store experiment results after
+   completion
+
+-  Add support for switches in GUI and configuration file
+
+-  Add failNode and recoverNode methods to Experiment class
+
+-  Add most connected node (MCN) failure experiment
+
+-  Add option to specify percentage of nodes pinged
+
+**Code changes**:
+
+-  Refactor program options into container class
+
+-  Remove unused "FIB Entries" option from NDN host options
+
+**Bug fixes**:
+
+-  Abort start up if experiment name is invalid
+
+-  Restart pings after recovery in failure experiment
+
+Mini-NDN version 0.1.0 (initial release)
+----------------------------------------
+
+Release date: July 15, 2015
+
+Mini-NDN is a lightweight networking emulation tool that enables
+testing, experimentation, and research on the NDN platform. Based on
+Mininet, Mini-NDN uses the NDN libraries, NFD, NLSR, and tools released
+by the `NDN project <http://named-data.net/codebase/platform/>`__ to
+emulate an NDN network on a single system.
+
+**Included features**:
+
+-  Run a complete NDN network on a single system
+
+-  Automatic configuration of NLSR to provide a routable NDN network
+
+-  Supports user created NDN applications
+
+-  Create a topology using the included Mini-NDN Edit GUI application
+
+-  Allows individual configuration of NFD and NLSR parameters for each
+   node
+
+-  Provides an experiment management framework for easy creation of
+   custom networking experiments
+
+-  Uses a simple topology file format to define hosts, links, and
+   configuration values
+
+-  Configure network link parameters including bandwidth, delay, and
+   loss rate
+
+-  Includes a pre-configured topology file to replicate the NDN testbed