Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost> writes: > Why are the version numbers of pkgsrc packages called Dewey numbers? The > concepts of a decimal classification scheme and a version number are > completely distinct. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Decimal_Classification > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_versioning > > I'd like to completely eliminate this term from pkgsrc. Just because Ant > and FreeBSD didn't come up with a better term more than 20 years ago > doesn't mean that we should stick to this confusing mistake. I have no idea; I always found it mildly strange but never enough to expend energy on it. But certainly we can see if somebody else does. Can you explain how big a change this is? Is it renaming p5-pkgsrc-Dewey, one comment in mk/, and minor Guide editing? I don't have the perl package installed, so I wonder how much or even if it is needed.
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